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President Carter flatly refused to meet the Rhodesians, telling a press conference: "I do not intend to see Mr. Smith. There is no reason for me to meet with him." Smith's best moment, as a result, was a session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There he declared that all four members of the executive council are prepared to attend "with no preconditions" an all-parties conference on Rhodesia's future, sponsored by the U.S. and Britain, and including Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. After checking out Smith's statement with his Rhodesian...
...Administration is convinced that Smith has long since lost sight of Rhodesian reality. Reported one U.S. diplomat who sat in on last week's sessions with Vance: "Smith maintains that everything is just fine, as though it could go on forever, even though his casualty rates, emigration and capital outflow are higher than ever. Our concern is that if Smith stays firm on the internal settlement, it is a recipe for disaster...
Calling white Rhodesian and South African leaders "thugs," Koka said "oppressors and oppressed cannot sit together and bargain." Instead, he said, spontaneous armed revolution is the way to end "the political domination of legalized prejudice" in South Africa...
...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith flew to the U.S. last week in a last-ditch effort to promote his faltering bi-racial interim government with the American public, and even before leaving Salisbury, he got an unexpected boost for his cause from an old enemy. Faced with a grave fertilizer shortage that threatened famine and food shortages, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda reluctantly announced that he would reopen his country's border with Rhodesia to permit vital imports and to allow the rail shipment of Zambian copper to ports in South Africa and Mozambique...
Kaunda's announcement came as Smith, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who is one of his three black colleagues on the Rhodesian Executive Council, and twelve other ranking officials in the government were en route to the U.S. Smith told a press conference in Salisbury that he hoped "to give the American people the truth. If they still think we are wrong, and they still want to condemn us, that is fair. But I don't think they will...