Word: rhodesians
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...polished combat boots and leather holsters, bandoleers of machine-gun bullets slung over their shoulders. A few even sported gleaming Soviet medals on their breast. Startled whites stared in anxious silence or menacingly shook their fists as they passed by. But in the villages and urban townships, thousands of Rhodesian blacks gleefully hailed their return with an exultant chant: "Zimbabwe, we love...
...plan, which took effect last week, would confine the guerrillas to their scattered assembly camps and the Rhodesian security forces to their 42 relatively central military bases until an independent Zimbabwe government is formed after February's majority-rule elections. Monitoring the truce, under the supervision of British Governor Lord Soames, are 1,200 Commonwealth troops, drawn from Britain, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Kenya...
...difficult terrain, it was an extraordinarily impressive turnout. Governor Soames, while refusing a Patriotic Front request to extend the assembly deadline, indicated that he would take no immediate action against late-arriving guerrillas. Indeed, he could hardly condemn only the Front's few stragglers, since it was the Rhodesian security forces who seemed to be dragging their feet in returning to their bases, and some units continued to carry out unauthorized military missions in defiance of the truce...
...Rhodesia, meanwhile, ceasefire arrangements were successfully taking root. Under the overall authority of Lord Soames, the British-appointed Governor, the 1,200 Commonwealth observers completed their deployment to monitoring posts throughout the country. After the cease-fire officially took effect at midnight last Friday, Rhodesian security forces began to retreat to their 42 military bases. Simultaneously, the guerrillas are supposed to come out of the bush and -under Commonwealth escort-complete their movement to 16 camps by the Jan. 4 assembly deadline. There, alongside Commonwealth troops, they will be housed until the establishment of an independent Zimbabwe government after...
...breaks down in a bad way, which I don't visualize happening, then the Governor would have to use the forces that he has at his disposal and are loyal to him-forces he can rely on from all the parties concerned [that is, whatever units of the Rhodesian security forces or the Patriotic Front he can count on in any given situation...