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...asking so much from my poor little Zimbabwe?" chuckled Robert Mugabe in response to one reporter's knotty question about his future government. Indeed, almost every one seemed to be seeking what once might have been considered the impossible from the Prime Minister: that he satisfy black aspirations, retain white confidence and keep the peace. Yet last week the former revolutionary leader was succeeding at those tasks far beyond anyone's expectations. Said Bernard Miller, white editor of the monthly Rhodesian Farmer: "We were all wrong about him. Everyone's got egg on his face...
...vitally important white official who immediately announced his support of the new regime was Lieut. General Peter Walls, 53, who led Rhodesia's bloody seven-year war against the guerrillas. At Mugabe's request, Walls agreed to retain the supreme military command and preside over the integration of Rhodesian forces with the guerrillas in the new national army...
...Newport Beach, Calif. Though it was Voit's father William who expanded his tire-retread operation into ball manufacturing in the 1920s, it was Willard, company president from 1946 to 1960, who promoted the rubber revolution in athletics. His argument that rubber balls cost less, last longer, retain their shape better and are more water-repellent than their leather counterparts won over U.S. football, soccer and basketball coaches-and brought him $3.9 million in 1957, when he sold the firm...
...Soviets appeared to be up against a dismal strategic reality: to suppress both the insurgency and civil disobedience, they might have to remain in the country far longer than they had perhaps intended, and they could be forced to bring in as many as 50,000 more troops to retain control of the cities and highways...
...side gave an inch during Vance's 4½-hour meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet. French officials remained convinced that U.S. insistence on "punishing" the Soviets would only make Moscow dig in deeper. Explained one diplomat: "The European view is that we should retain the leverage to put pressure on the Soviets because we think there's still a chance of getting them to pull out of Afghanistan...