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...separate development" for blacks, based on the creation of quasi-independent tribal homelands inside South Africa. Jimmy Carter is committed to progress toward majority rule not only in Rhodesia and Namibia (South West Africa) but in South Africa as well. Last year, when he was trying to achieve a Rhodesian settlement, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was prepared to settle for majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia, and worry about South Africa later; Carter believes all three must move together. Even as Mondale was heading for Vienna last week, after making diplomatic stops in Lisbon and Madrid, the President said...
...Foreign Secretary David Owen announced the outlines of a new U.S.-backed diplomatic initiative, aimed at obtaining agreement between Prime Minister Ian Smith's government and the rival black nationalist factions on a new constitution guaranteeing representation to the country's 6.3 million blacks. A jointly sponsored Rhodesian constitutional conference this summer will be postponed; instead, an Anglo-American "consultative group" will carry on bilateral negotiations with all parties likely to be involved in a future settlement. But the goal remains the same-majority rule...
...credit will belong to its prospective chairman, British Foreign Secretary David Owen, 38. Last week the neurologist-turned-diplomat returned to London from an eight-day fact-finding trip to Africa. He impressed both white and black leaders with his candor, youthful idealism and realistic understanding of the Rhodesian impasse. Rhodesian diplomats, who were angered by the cold aloofness of a team led in January by Britain's U.N. Ambassador, Ivor Richard, described Owen as "tough" and "refreshing." He is hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia-can persuade Joshua Nkomo...
...Your trip has renewed the search for a Rhodesian settlement. To what new elements do you attribute this...
...independent Zimbabwe. They are not going to accept words. They're looking for concrete specific actions. Wherever I went in Africa I met a wall of disbelief about virtually any words that were spoken by Mr. Smith. So I put it to Mr. Smith and the Rhodesian Front that they could make a start by changing now the racial discrimination that they have in their legislation...