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Even if he wins his fourth election this week, Ian Smith's days in office may be numbered. The Rhodesian Prime Minister is under mounting pressure to give up his impossible dream of perpetuating white minority rule in Salisbury and to avert further bloodshed by acceding to a new U.S.-British peace proposal. The initiative is aimed at ending the five-year-old guerrilla war with nationalist forces and paving the way for black majority rule...
...Prime Minister archly dismissed the British and American argument that any future Rhodesian government must include representatives of the Patriotic Front ("I'm right and they're wrong"). Once he has achieved what he calls an "internal settlement," Smith argues, "the guerrillas' support from the ground will fall away." But won't Rhodesian blacks demand to be in charge of their own affairs? "We will have to wait and see," Smith told McWhirter. "Maybe the most optimistic expectations are not going to coincide with practical realities of life...
...trouble with Smith's plan is that black Africa will not buy it. Across the Zambezi River in Lusaka, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood talked with two of the black leaders most concerned with achieving a Rhodesian settlement: Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's most respected leaders, and Joshua Nkomo, perhaps the best known of the Rhodesian nationalists and co-leader (with Robert Mugabe) of the Patriotic Front...
...O.A.U. supports the Patriotic Front, at the expense of such other Rhodesian nationalists as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole. Doesn't that increase the chance of civil war among black nationalist factions in Rhodesia...
...engaged in massive property destruction, and we believe the struggle should be soldier-to-soldier combat. But a lot of people have been killed, ordinary African men, women and children attacked by the [Rhodesian] Selous Scouts, who try to terrorize the population into not supporting the freedom fighters. Two days ago, 23 people were burned in their huts, and the Rhodesians said the freedom fighters did it and pointed to the Communist-made weapons. But you know a weapon responds to any finger...