Word: rhodesian
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...state of panic. But as these newspaper advertisements suggest, there are signs of growing unease. Throughout the country, more than 150,000 new firearms licenses were issued last year, bringing the total to a remarkable 1.25 million. In the northern reaches of the country, near the Rhodesian border, white farmers are also equipping themselves with walkie-talkie radios. To the east, along the Mozambican frontier, others are clearing the bush and attempting to guard against terrorist infiltration...
...about black rights, there were some new signs of hope for Rhodesia. The problem there has been how to arrange a transition to majority rule by the 6.2 million blacks in a way that is acceptable to the 270,000 whites. Prime Minister Ian Smith and his party, the Rhodesian Front, have accepted the principle of majority rule, but a first round of settlement talks in Geneva foundered last January over the makeup of an interim government for the breakaway colony...
Last week U.S. and British diplomats were working on a new approach that would guarantee transfer of power to blacks while offering whites financial inducements to stay on. The proposals may be presented at a Rhodesian constitutional conference, either in London or somewhere in Africa, possibly in June. The U.S.-British joint plan differs from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's ill-fated program in one key respect: the makeup of an interim caretaker government will be tackled only after the question of a constitution for majority-ruled Zimbabwe (as blacks call Rhodesia) has been settled...
...began, but at least 2,000 remain active inside Rhodesia, 3,000 are based just outside the borders and thousands more are undergoing training in neighboring countries. The government's defense effort has benefited from the performance of several predominantly black counterinsurgency units, like the Selous Scouts, a Rhodesian version of the Green Berets. Nonetheless, the "kill ratio" of the Rhodesian forces over the guerrillas has dropped in recent months from 10 to 1 to about 5 to 1, and the Rhodesians are losing men at three times the rate of a year ago. Says a security officer somberly...
...Congo (Brazzaville) (2,000), Sierra Leone (200-300), Guinea (300-500), Equatorial Guinea (300-500), Guinea-Bissau (300), Mozambique (500-600), Tanzania (500), Somalia (650) and, for the past month or so, Uganda (about 100). In Mozambique the Cubans help with sugar growing and perhaps with the training of Rhodesian guerrillas. In Somalia, on the Horn of Africa, they advise the army as well as the Somali guerrillas who are active in the neighboring French territory of Afars and Issas (otherwise known as Djibouti), which is set to become independent this summer. And now, judging by Fidel Castro...