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...expect it to last more than 30 minutes," Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith growled on the eve of his meeting with black Rhodesian leaders. In fact the meeting, held in a white railway car perched on a bridge 310 ft. above the Zambezi River and overlooking thundering Victoria Falls, was spread over 14 hours. While it came to nothing, there was one consolation for Smith's foes. Mused Bishop Abel Muzorewa, head of the African National Council that claims to speak for Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks: "It was the longest 30 minutes of Mr. Smith...
...Rhodesian groups could not even agree on a location for future meetings. Last week's parley was staged right on the border between Rhodesia and Zambia, a concession to the fact that Smith would not hold the talks outside Rhodesia and Muzorewa would not hold them inside. Smith insisted that future sessions be held inside Rhodesia. But six A.N.C. members who face arrest on subversion charges if they should return to Rhodesia would not be able to attend. Smith bluntly refused to grant the council leaders temporary immunity, explaining: "It would involve people who are well-known terrorist leaders...
...heartening to Smith's white electorate, but it may not sustain his beleaguered country much longer. The guerrilla war being waged by impatient blacks is expected to intensify later this year. The black rulers of newly independent Mozambique are in a position to close their ports to Rhodesian trade whenever they choose, and the pressure from South Africa is bound to continue. Vorster, convinced of the need for an accommodation with black Africa, has already removed 2,000 South African paramilitary policemen from Rhodesia. He has also succeeded in persuading South African cigarette-makers to reduce their purchases...
...column of spray more than 1,000 ft. high that gives rise to the African name for the cascade: Mosi-oa-tunya (the smoke that thunders). A white line halfway across the 657-ft.-long bridge marks the border between Rhodesia and Zambia. Directly over that line, the Rhodesian government of Prime Minister Ian Smith and the black leaders of the country's African National Council will meet next week. Their purpose: to begin negotiations that will pave the way for black majority rule...
Caroline is used to having her own way in her father's principality. Her own zoo used to prowl the palace in Monaco; one unfortunate nanny was pinned to the floor on arrival by a Rhodesian ridgeback. A baby lion playfully snapped at the heels of visiting celebrities until finally banished. "It was smelly," says Grace. Now Caroline is content with a couple of horses and her Yorkie, Tif-Tif; they are the safe kind of pet that a mother loves. But Caroline is only biding her time. As she suddenly informed Grace in the middle of a family...