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...leathery-faced Rhodesian tobacco farmer who sat sipping tea in the spacious lobby of Salisbury's Meikles Hotel had an automatic rifle slung incongruously across his lap. "If it comes to it," he told friends loudly, "I'll give up the farm, retreat here and pick off the buggers as they come through that door." Though still maintaining a confident front, reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs after a visit to Salisbury, white Rhodesia is becoming deeply demoralized. Last week's vote by the U.S. Congress to repeal the Byrd Amendment, under which the U.S. has been importing...
Salisbury and other Rhodesian cities are still secure. But much of the countryside-particularly in the eastern districts that face Mozambique-is subject to attack from increasingly well-armed guerrillas who terrorize black villages, assault sandbagged and floodlit white farmhouses with rockets and mortars, sabotage the two rail lines to South Africa, and plant mines on paved as well as dirt roads. Traffic moves in armed convoys on many main highways, and it is a rare farmer in Rhodesia today who does not carry in his car an automatic rifle or even a "rhogun," the local adaptation of Israel...
WHILE PRESIDENT CARTER'S recent repeal of the Byrd Amendment permitting U.S. importation of Rhodesian chrome--a move that will increase white Rhodesia's economic isolation and strengthen the position of the Zimbabwean freedom fighters--suggests that the administration may be developing a new policy in Africa, the recent gift of almost $4 million in weapons and aid to Zaire inspires a less optimistic interpretation of American goals...
...repeal of the Byrd Amendment is essentially symbolic. American reliance on Rhodesian chrome dropped from 11 per cent of the amount used in the U.S. to 3 per cent last year; and Union Carbide, which owns most of the major Rhodesian chrome mines, recently completed construction of a chrome refinery in South Africa and will be able to continue importing Rhodesian chrome in finished form to America through that channel. The move seems designed simply to win the friendship of the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, whose victory in Rhodesia seems inevitable; it certainly represents no sacrifice on America's part...
Young's response to these insights has been commendable: he has avoided self-righteousness and focused on what he considers tangible pressures for change that the U.S. can bring to bear. He believes strongly that the Carter administration can convince international business firms tied to the South African and Rhodesian governments that it is in their long-term interest to follow the inevitable tide toward black majority rule in southern Africa. When they see the light, they will begin to offer black nationalists capital to develop their countries' resources and provide markets for their exports. An extreme Young suggestion...