Word: rhodesia
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...hard as netting a rare African butterfly. Last week, at the conclusion of a 14-day U.S. tour aimed at promoting his "internal settlement" for the breakaway British colony, Smith apparently got pinned. U.S. and British officials announced that the Prime Minister and his three black colleagues on Rhodesia's governing Executive Council had agreed to their terms for an all-parties conference dealing with the country's future. That conference-the basis of Anglo-American plans for a peaceful settlement-would also have to include leaders of the black nationalist Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe...
Bending to U.S. and British pressure, Smith and the black council members accepted an American-proposed agenda for talks that would have five basic objectives. They are: 1) provisions for holding free and fair elections; 2) cease-fire arrangements; 3) agreement on a transitional administration to guide Rhodesia to true independence and majority rule; 4) the formation of a single army to serve Zimbabwe (the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia); and 5) a constitution that, among its basic principles, includes guarantees of individual rights...
...demonstrators will also protest against President Carter for letting Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, into the U.S., Rothschild added...
...violence when it erected its system of apartheid decades ago, and every time it strengthened that system in recent years with bantustans and pass laws. South Africa chose violence at Sharpeville in 1960, at Soweto in 1975, with the murder of Steve Biko last year. Supported by South Africa, Rhodesia chose violence with its raids last week. When the two countries are not choosing violence, they are backing and filling, stalling for time, as in the now-on, now-off elections in Namibia, as in the mockery of a transitional government in Rhodesia...
South Africa will not abolish apartheid. Rhodesia will not do away with the privileges its whites enjoy. The solution in southern Africa will come tragically, with a bloodbath. Negotiations will rise and set in the next 20 years, filling the headlines and giving the State Department something to do. When the war comes, when Afrikaaner minds are changed, finally, with bullets, Americans will be able only to regret that the U.S. did not do all it could to support the Popular Front in Rhodesia and the liberation forces in South Africa...