Word: rhodesia
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...least cooperative about keeping the ceasefire. "My great fear is the number of ZANLA forces outside the country and what their real intentions are," he says, noting that "some of their party pamphlets were inciting to violence." Soames adds that he will question Mugabe after his return to Rhodesia to "find out more than I now know about where he's intending to go and how he intends to get there...
...ZIMBABWE RHODESIA...
...affable, jowly countenance has earned him the nickname "Smiler" Soames among Rhodesians. But the lordly Governor of Britain's last African colony has little cause for buoyancy these days. He bears responsibility for running "free and fair" elections to Zimbabwe Rhodesia's new, 100-member House of Assembly; yet many of the parties have threatened to withdraw from the balloting. He also has to hold together a shaky cease-fire amid continuing violence...
...Mozambique prisons for more than two years. Insisting that the prisoners were the responsibility of the Mozambicans, Mugabe angrily threatened to boycott the elections. At week's end, however, he grudgingly agreed to their release under pressure from Mozambique President Samora Machel, and scheduled a triumphant return to Rhodesia on Sunday...
Nkomo's fence-mending efforts are hampered by a deep-seated white bitterness over the role of his guerrilla forces in downing two civilian Air Rhodesia Viscounts in September 1978 and February 1979. But Nkomo feels sure that the whites will eventually "forgive and forget." He may be right. A growing number of whites, led by former Prime Minister Ian Smith, believe that Nkomo is the only black leader with the charisma and political clout to pull the shattered pieces of Rhodesia together again. Said one white businessman who met him in Salisbury last week: "Politically speaking, Joshua makes...