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...visiting President, Leopold Senghor. Later he made a covert plane trip to Liberia for talks with President William Tolbert. Last year he met publicly with Zambia's President Kaunda at Victoria Falls on the Rhodesia-Zambia border in what proved to be an unsuccessful effort to achieve a Rhodesian settlement...
...gaffe came in response to a question during a Sacramento Press Club appearance. After a potshot at Henry Kissinger for siding with black Rhodesians against Ian Smith's minority white regime, Reagan suggested that the U.S. and Britain should instead serve as "mediators" in the dispute. "How would we do that?" he was asked. "With an occupation force, with military troops, with observers or what?" Replied Reagan: "This is one that I think you would have to be completely involved with the Rhodesian government to find out if that [a peace-keeping force] would be necessary." Then: "Whether...
...cost him his expected victory in this week's California primary. But between now and the Republican Convention as Reagan and President Ford intensify their courtship of uncommitted delegates, Reagan's performance may indeed prove costly. What is already being snidely referred to as "Reagan's Rhodesian Expeditionary Force" is the sort of blunder that is not likely to persuade delegates that Reagan is a candidate who can succeed next November...
...RHODESIAN GUERRILLAS. Those who want to help Africa to be free would do better to help the countries who have proved and shown that they are able to help the liberation movements rather than come in themselves with the kind of direct involvement that only leads to confrontation. But take the situation in Namibia. Take the situation in Zimbabwe. As far as the West is concerned, after Angola, the Russians and the Cubans can't go into Zimbabwe and other countries. But Africans would applaud them if they walked in tomorrow. It doesn't matter what the color...
Under the mobilization order, 20,000 reserves are now liable to call-up for indefinite periods of active duty. Before, reserves had been subject to three or four call-ups a year, for a total of about four months. But now, said a Rhodesian official, "they'll stay in until they are stood down. It could be up to ten years." Salisbury also extended the draft from twelve to 18 months for all whites in the 18-to-25 age group. Since most jobs of any importance are held by whites, the mobilization will put further strains...