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SALISBURY, Rhodesia--Nationalist guerillas blew up oil storage tanks and attacked at least five polling places yesterday as Rhodesians prepared to vote today for the nation's first black-majority government...
...Patriotic Front forces of guerilla leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo have pledged to sabotage the voting for the 72 black members of Rhodesia's first majority parliament...
Military sources said six guerillas used a Russian-manufactured rocket in the attack. The petroleum is valuable to Rhodesia because its imports are restricted by United Nations sanctions...
Another group of Rhodesian commandos dressed as local soldiers destroyed a ferry in Botswana. The ferry crossed the Zambesi river where Botswana, Zambia and Rhodesia meet...
Zambia and Botswana border Rhodesia on the north and west and harbor guerillas who have recently threatened to disrupt Rhodesian elections scheduled three days from today...