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...SMITH, the game is drawing to an end. It was 13 years ago last week that Smith and his Rhodesian Front Party raised the green-and-white flag of independence over Government House in Salisbury; today, few governments in the world have recognized that flag, and 15,000 armed men wait across the border in Zambia and Mozambique for the right moment to attack. Two months ago, the guerrilla forces of the Patriotic Front shot down a Rhodesian airliner, and last week armed insurgents made their first foray into Salisbury itself. Some observers think the government will fall...
Rhodesia's ability to continue holding the Front forces at arm's length though apparently eroding as the weeks go by and the guerrillas become more and more daring, is still considerable. Consistently, ten guerrillas have fallen for each Rhodesian soldier who died in the fighting of the last few years. And Smith is counting on his 7900-man army and 35,000 reserves to improve that standard in future battles. The loyalty of black Rhodesian troops--who make up over half the active soldiers--has already been tested and not found wanting...
...future parliament, enough seats to block any constitutional changes. An equally significant clause promises that whites will retain control of the national army, police force, and civil service for at least ten years. Blacks will get the vote on an unrestricted basis for the first time in Rhodesian history, but the rest of the agreement makes one wonder what they will be able to do with that vote...
Surprisingly, the West has proved one of Smith's more effective opponents, though it has done little to encourage a peaceful settlement of the Rhodesian problem. For example, the U.S. currently backs an Anglo-American plan pieced together by U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen. The plan marks an attempt by the British to atone for their weak-willed opposition to Smith's "colonial rebellion," and by the U.S. to undo the effects of the Nixon administration's "tilt" toward the apartheid states in the early '70s. Unfortunately, it calls for the participation of Nkomo...
...brisk traffic in mementos is even beginning to spread to other countries, as white Rhodesians emigrate abroad at the rate of 1,000 a month. Currently one of the hottest items on the memorabilia market harks back to Cecil Rhodes' colonization in 1889 of the country that bears his name. This is the green-and-white Rhodesian flag, which bears the Rhodes family arms (lion passant between two thistles). A 6-ft. by 3-ft. Rhodesian flag that retails for $18 in Salisbury now costs...