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...mortar barrage, "troopies" (soldiers) and their birds were rocking to a song about the country's bad news. It appeared, in fact, that the blues had become an informal national anthem. As gloomy figures on war casualties and economic decline continued to seep in, record numbers of white Rhodesians were moving out. The latest mission to Salisbury by an Anglo-American negotiating team was called a failure by the Rhodesian government...
...between relative moderates, such as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, and the more extreme forces, which now call themselves the Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. The moderates, while willing to accept a gradual transfer of power, have also been insisting that black Rhodesians be allowed to choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets, then approved a resolution, proposed by Zambia's President...
...Faction. Senegal's Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, proposed that all black nationalist leaders be given equal OAU endorsement. But other delegates were influenced by Kaunda, whose backing of the Patriotic Front was a dramatic switch from his previous backing of all Rhodesian black nationalist movements. The Zambian leader concluded that OAU support for one faction would make a post-independence fight for political control less likely. He also endorsed Mugabe's argument that majority rule can be won only by armed conflict. Declared Kaunda: "A new Zimbabwe [Rhodesia] can only...
...resolution once again underlined the folly of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's policy. Had it not been for his stubborn refusal all along to accept majority rule, he could have transferred power to the moderates some years ago. Now it is probably too late, although there is speculation in Salisbury that Smith might propose surrendering power to a predominantly black coalition government that would include Sithole, Muzorewa and a number of local chiefs...
Smith is under growing domestic pressure to resolve Rhodesia's uncertain situation. Last week Desmond Frost quit as chairman of the P.M.'s Rhodesian Front Party and joined twelve other Rhodesian Front rebels in the ultra-rightist Rhodesian Action Party. This new group rejects even the limited concessions the regime has been making to blacks. As disturbing for the Smith regime is the quickened tempo of the "chicken run"-the flight of whites. Between 1,500 and 1,700 now leave Rhodesia each month; the net loss to the country (after accounting for immigration) could reach...