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...what one observer described as a six-hour "interrogation" by South African Prime Minister John Vorster. The proposal that most troubled Vorster: the disbanding of the Rhodesian army and establishment of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Vorster declared: "The Rhodesian question is a matter for whites and blacks in Rhodesia to solve"-apparently meaning that as far as Vorster is concerned, Smith is free to pursue his own kind of settlement and that South Africa will not put pressure on him to end minority rule...
...London and Washington really think their proposals had a chance of being accepted? The grim alternative, in the British view, would be to let Rhodesia drift toward military dictatorship under a divided guerrilla army. Smith's own plan is wishful thinking, they believe, because it seeks to preserve white power with a semblance of black participation but excludes the radical factions whose guerrilla armies have brought Rhodesia to the point of crisis...
...there is no indication that he will do so. One Whitehall official described the conclusion of the Owen-Young mission as "the end of a chapter, not the close of the book." Perhaps so. But to judge by the evidence last week, the close of the book on Rhodesia is likely to be both prolonged and bloody...
Belingwe is a cattle-ranching and mining region in south-central Rhodesia. The landscape, raw and parched, is broken by boulder-strewn hills and will soon be softened by the splashing pinks and magentas of blooming wild msasa trees. To the south of the town of Shabani (pop. 1,900 whites, 14,000 blacks) stretches the Belingwe Tribal Trust Land, a reserve inhabited by 140,000 blacks, where the guerrilla presence is most deeply felt. On election day last week, TIME's Xan Smiley visited Belingwe and filed this report on its troubled mood...
...Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however beneficial to the populace or nonpolitical the target might be. As elsewhere in Rhodesia, the guerrillas land-mine roads, rob stores, hijack buses and stage occasional ambushes. Their aim is to push the nationalist cause and to make the country ungovernable, and they seem to be succeeding...