Word: rhodesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among them, ironically, was a battalion of the former Rhodesian African Rifles, a 3,000-man brigade commanded by white officers and once the scourge of Zimbabwean guerrilla fighters. By week's end the national army troops had regained control of Bulawayo. Up to 1,000 dissident ZIPRA troops disappeared into the bush. Many carried their machine guns and grenade launchers with them, auguring more strife...
While the Soviet Union can deliver arms to national liberation movements, the U.S. and the West can deliver something far more useful in the long run: multilateral negotiated settlements that resolve regional conflicts. A recent and promising though still precarious example: the end of the Rhodesian civil war and the creation of Zimbabwe. Both events were midwifed by Britain, with
...minority Ndebele tribal region, constituted a permanent menace to the power of Mugabe's Shona-dominated Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Armed supporters of the two parties have clashed violently in recent months. Their continuing rivalry threatens the crucial integration of the two guerrilla armies with the former Rhodesian security forces...
...Carter Administration. There may still be time to change course during the transition period. If the effort fails we will continue to argue for a negotiated resolution of the conflict. We recall, perhaps with unwarranted optimism, that it was Mrs. Thatcher--and not her Labor predecessors--who brought the Rhodesian crisis to a peaceful end. We hope that moderation and reason will prevail among President Reagan's appointees...
...defendants were saved from the noose by the 1975 Indemnity and Compensation Act, which shields government officials from conviction for acts committed "in good faith" to suppress terrorism. The law had been passed by the white minority government of former Prime Minister Ian Smith at the height of the Rhodesian civil war and remained on the books after black nationalists took over the government of newly independent Zimbabwe last April. (The law was repealed only after the Tekere trial began.) At the advice of their Gibraltar-born white lawyer, Nick McNally, the defendants claimed that they were only trying...