Word: rhodesia
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...election that Africa will long remember. It has been marked by political violence, brutality and intimidation, perhaps the worst in the history of the continent's turbulent independence movements. During the two-month campaign in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, there have been 250 deaths and more than 207 declared violations of the cease-fire agreement painstakingly hammered out at London's Lancaster House conference last fall...
...impossible" or "difficult" for parties other than Mugabe's to campaign because of intimidation by his guerrilla forces (acronymically called ZANLA). At least 2,000 of Mugabe's men have refused to enter the 14 cease-fire assembly points set aside for guerrillas returning to Zimbabwe Rhodesia from camps in neighboring states...
...Aloofness clearly didn't wash in Iowa and Reagan's managers have shifted tactics in New Hampshire.) They added more campaign stops to the Granite State schedule. But for Reagan promoters, exposure is as dangerous as isolation. The public blunders four years ago attest to that--on Rhodesia, Reagan proclaimed in 1976 that the United States should send in the troops. Or, digging back still earlier, in November 1966, when he told conservative Human Events that 'Social Security ought to be voluntary." A year earlier in the Washington Star, he offered this analysis of Earl Warren's abilities: "I think...
...leftist weekly New Statesman, which two weeks ago began publishing a serialized expose by Journalist Duncan Campbell, 27. His most startling claim was that the government tapped phones, bugged hotel rooms and even monitored diplomatic communications of delegates to last fall's Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia; this surveillance, he contended, was "authorized directly" by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who won wide acclaim for his deft performance as conference chairman. Though all delegations were monitored, Campbell wrote, particular attention was paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; Rhodesian security...
...proof of his innocence. South Africa's Minister of the Economy, Schalk van der Merwe, has insisted that his country's "hands are clean." Lloyd's, however, surmises that after buying the Salem's oil, South Africa then resold it, at a 10% increase, to Rhodesia...