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Though the guerrillas arrived in alarmingly low numbers during the first few days, an eleventh-hour surge brought some 17,000 fighters-virtually all the guerrillas the British had estimated were in Rhodesia-into the assembly camps by the Jan. 4 deadline. The bulk of the returnees were members of Robert Mugabe's ZANLA forces; the others were ZIPRA troops loyal to Joshua Nkomo. Considering the great physical difficulties faced by the guerrillas, some of whom marched more than a hundred miles over difficult terrain, it was an extraordinarily impressive turnout. Governor Soames, while refusing a Patriotic Front request...
...made up as tautly as if it were still awaiting the morning inspection. He is dressed in camouflage fatigues and parade-polished black boots with a small pistol tucked into a leather hip holster. For him, the long war began more than 16 years ago, when he first left Rhodesia as the son of a poor carpenter to join the little bands that first took up guerrilla training. Since then, traveling clandestinely, fighting under a series of aliases, he had witnessed the spreading of guerrilla warfare through the Third World from his earliest political and military in- doctrination under Soviet...
...Rhodesia, meanwhile, ceasefire arrangements were successfully taking root. Under the overall authority of Lord Soames, the British-appointed Governor, the 1,200 Commonwealth observers completed their deployment to monitoring posts throughout the country. After the cease-fire officially took effect at midnight last Friday, Rhodesian security forces began to retreat to their 42 military bases. Simultaneously, the guerrillas are supposed to come out of the bush and -under Commonwealth escort-complete their movement to 16 camps by the Jan. 4 assembly deadline. There, alongside Commonwealth troops, they will be housed until the establishment of an independent Zimbabwe government after...
Even the best intentions on the guerrillas' side could not hide misgivings among their own senior military commanders. Several officers admitted they were having problems persuading the rank and file to accept the cease-fire order. One top ZANLA officer who returned to Rhodesia last week told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. "Our boys live in the field. You have to get to them. The leaders and the boys have to meet face to face. The war has created a lot of doubts and fear in everybody's mind. We are concerned that the British want...
...British soldier is going to fire a weapon-except in self-defense. We are not prepared to risk Rhodesia becoming Britain's Viet...