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...plan, whose broad outline had previously been leaked to the press, calls for transition from white to black majority rule during 1978, with a British administrator supervising elections in which adults of all races would have the right to vote. During this period, both the Rhodesian army and the guerrilla armies would be replaced by a U.N. military force, and eventually by a new army for independent Zimbabwe, the African name for Rhodesia. The U.S., Britain and other nations would provide a development fund of between $1 billion and $1.5 billion to help revive the country's battered economy...
...stop in Lusaka, Zambia, Owen and Young discussed the plan with Patriotic Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. In Pretoria, they underwent what one observer described as a six-hour "interrogation" by South African Prime Minister John Vorster. The proposal that most troubled Vorster: the disbanding of the Rhodesian army and establishment of a U.N. peace-keeping force. Vorster declared: "The Rhodesian question is a matter for whites and blacks in Rhodesia to solve"-apparently meaning that as far as Vorster is concerned, Smith is free to pursue his own kind of settlement and that South Africa will...
British officials emphasized that according to the Anglo-American security proposals, the new army would comprise not only the guerrillas but also "acceptable elements" of the Rhodesian forces. Moreover, they pointed out, the Rhodesian police would remain in place under the transitional leadership. Overseeing this delicate grouping of white-led police and black-controlled army units would be U.N. forces, perhaps composed of contingents from Nigeria, Kenya and Finland. British and American officials argue that once a transitional government embracing moderate African elements was in place in Salisbury, the guerrilla armies would be under increasing pressure not to fight...
...DOOM GLOOM GOBLIN? demanded the posters of the right-wing Rhodesian Action Party. Among the diehard Afrikaner ranchers of Nuanetsi, near Belingwe, the gloom is virtually impenetrable. Last week most farmers there cast their ballots by mail; nowadays they rarely venture far from their fortified homes. Reason: during one terrifying two-week period in July, a different homestead was attacked every day. The Belingwe Tribal Trust Land has become what one Swiss missionary calls "occupied territory"; the guerrillas are there, the government knows it, but the army cannot do much about it. The guerrillas attack anything connected with government, however...
...government blames the guerrillas for every atrocity; the guerrillas blame the Rhodesian army's Selous Scouts, an elite mixed-race tracking unit whose members occasionally masquerade as guerrillas to test villagers' loyalties. Belingwe villagers are convinced, whatever the truth, that government forces last May killed the reserve's only black doctor, who had previously been warned against giving medicine to guerrillas. The government firmly insists that he was murdered by the "ters" (terrorists...