Word: rhodesian
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...after it becomes black Zimbabwe rest squarely on the ability of the nationalist factions to unite around a responsible leader. A decade ago, white settlers all over Africa shuddered at the thought of "another Congo" in their midst. Today, African observers wonder if in the splintered makeup of the Rhodesian nationalists there could be the seeds of another Angola. As always in Africa, the qualities of the man who emerges as leader will be all-important ? in determining whether the country will undergo an orderly transition, and whether enough whites will remain to help run the civil service...
...mile border with Mozambique and 400-mile border with Zambia is by no means a certainty. That war, which began in earnest in December 1972, may well continue through a fourth November-April rainy season. In four years, the fighting has taken the lives of 1,426 guerrillas, 161 Rhodesian troops, 508 black civilians and 47 whites; approximately half of these have been killed in 1976 alone...
...following day he reported on the mission's progress to Britain's Prime Minister Callaghan and Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland. Publicly, Kissinger was anxious to give the British full credit for the present Rhodesian proposal; privately, he was aware that the British, having got burned over Rhodesia before, would be content to let the U.S. take the responsibility if a last-minute hitch should develop. At a press conference, Kissinger was asked what would happen if the Rhodesian problem should be turned over to Britain, as the de jure colonial power, and then fell apart...
...Kissinger brought off his Rhodesian coup? "Personal charm," he quipped blithely to reporters in London. Not exactly; but to a large extent it was Kissinger's uncanny understanding of the realities of power, his shrewd timing, and his recognition that only the U.S. could play the role of catalyst that made it possible...
...negotiated inconclusively with Smith for two months earlier this year. Another is Robert Mugabe, 51, a largely self-educated teacher, who is a member of the powerful Shona tribe (which makes up about 80% of Rhodesia's black population), and who has a wide following among Rhodesian guerrillas based in Mozambique...