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...M.P.s, led by Joseph Chikerema, who are seeking to form a rival bloc. The defections potentially reduce Muzorewa's parliamentary support to a minority of 44 seats in the 100-member assembly, meaning that the bishop's survival may depend on the votes of Smith's Rhodesian Front Party...
...Rhodesia could not be called "either fair or free," largely because they were held under a constitution that reserves a disproportionate share of power for the white minority. Carter thus had a moral reason when he decided not to lift the economic sanctions that prevent the U.S. from buying Rhodesian chrome. Politically, moreover, the maintaining of sanctions puts the U.S. on the side of black Africa, and, as a bonus, scores points with American blacks who feel that Carter has been ignoring them. The President's judgment on that score was confirmed only two hours after he announced...
Observers are watching carefully to see whether the advent of a predominantly black government in Salisbury will change the strategy of the two wings of the Patriotic Front, whose guerrillas have been waging war against the Rhodesian regime for the past six years. One leader of the Front, the hulking Joshua Nkomo, who heads the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), was on a private visit to the U.S. He skipped a stopover in Washington, but dropped in at the United Nations and attended an African-American Institute conference in Houston, where he turned his gargantuan appetite loose on a Texas...
...army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says one ZANU official in Mozambique: "At least the leader of a so-called independent Bantustan in South Africa can fire his own police chief." The advantage of the new system to the whites, he contends, is that when the Rhodesian army commits its next atrocity against African villagers, it will have "a black mouth to defend...
Despite the availability of all that outside help, military experts believe Nkomo's 17,000-man army is deteriorating; moreover, the long-feuding Mugabe and Nkomo groups have not yet settled on a common military strategy. That could give the Rhodesian army an important advantage, except that its morale and fighting power also seem to be declining as experienced white officers continue to leave. Thus, conclude some observers, it is not unlikely that two poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly disciplined armies may wind up slogging away at each other for years to come...