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...Britain and the U.S., was "dead and buried" and that "the only way left is war." He again sought to justify the destruction of the airliner. "Having about 40 people killed in a plane crash is not pleasant," he said. "We are not rejoicing over death. But the Rhodesian armed forces are killing 30 to 40 of our people...
...fully trained guerrillas in Nkomo's army, hundreds more are arriving weekly by way of neighboring Botswana. The newcomers are screened and given some rudimentary training at a major transit camp in Zambia before being sent on to Angola or Eastern Europe for further instruction. Nkomo heatedly denies Rhodesian charges that the young blacks are forced to join his organization at gunpoint. "That's just nonsense," he says. "We have more people than we need or can cope with efficiently...
...meeting of Castro with the Patriotic Front leaders was the latest in a series of disturbing developments in the Rhodesian debacle. Two weeks ago there was the shooting down by Nkomo's guerrillas of a Rhodesian civil airliner with a Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missile. Anger and revulsion swept the white community, and this time Prime Minister Ian Smith was included as a target of white criticism, because he had secretly conferred with Nkomo in Zambia in mid-August...
...civilian sympathizers. But no more. By midweek the government had arrested more than 200 blacks thought to be linked to the guerrillas and detained them without trial. As he tried to rally his white constituency, Smith raged that Nkomo, who had readily accepted responsibility for the destruction of the Rhodesian airplane, was "a monster" who had gone "beyond the pale...
...week's events left every significant political alliance in the Rhodesian crisis under serious strain. Smith has angered his Executive Council colleagues, one of whose aides called him a traitor. After such a split, he may find it difficult to count on their future support. One danger, in fact, is that an angry Muzorewa might one day decide to bolt to the Patriotic Front. As for Nkomo and Mugabe, they are more suspicious of each other than ever before. Even their mentors, the leaders of the front-line states, are now divided by a serious dispute...