Word: rhodesia
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...Department official: "Hard ball is what the entire process is all about. Carrington has proved that he can play that very well indeed." Thanks largely to the tactical skills of Britain's urbane, aristocratic Foreign Secretary, the sixth week of the Lancaster House Conference in London on Zimbabwe Rhodesia ended with a long awaited breakthrough: Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo after a four-day exclusion from the talks accepted a British-drafted constitution. In return Lord Carrington promised Western-financed compensation for any lands nationalized by a future Zimbabwe government...
...whites, who constitute only 3% of the population, now control half of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's territory and more than 80% of its most productive farm lands. This imbalance, the guerrillas argued, would have to be redressed by a sweeping program of land redistribution. After...
...some behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at getting the financial guarantees that might help resolve the crisis. Although it has avoided any direct role in the negotiations, the Carter Administration is considering a multinational "Southern Africa Aid Package," which would provide between $1 billion and $2 billion to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the neighboring states that have suffered from the war. State Department officials insist that this is a broad-based "agricultural and development fund" and not a "buy-out-the-whites scheme." Still, the initiative provided assurance that substantial U.S. aid would be available for Zimbabwe Rhodesia's future...
During the six-month run-up to elections, Rhodesia would effectively revert to the status of a British colony, run by a British governor assisted by some 300 civilian and military advisers. A cease-fire would confine the Salisbury security forces to their barracks and the guerrillas to their bases, leaving Commonwealth observers to police the elections...
Pretoria recently hinted that it would intervene militarily should the forces of "chaos and confusion" descend upon Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Last week South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha flew unexpectedly to London to express his government's concerns to Carrington and Thatcher...