Word: rhodesians
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...face to face for the first time in what may be a last chance for a peaceful transfer of power from the ruling white minority to the black majority. Despite the mutual suspicion and distrust that permeated the chamber, the fact that the four leading black nationalists and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, a white, were willing to meet at all was at least one encouraging sign. Said Conference Chairman Ivor Richard, Britain's United Nations ambassador: "The impossible has now become a matter of negotiation." From the beginning it was clear that the bargaining would be long...
...southern Africa, we have the trust of the Rhodesian government, the South African government, the front-line nations. We have a reservoir of support in the black African nations. If [the U.S.] puts a new player in the game -I'm not sure that we can keep that momentum going which is so critical...
...face of repeated Marxist guerrilla attacks from neighboring Mozambique, the Rhodesian government has stood fast in its resolve and the Smith regime has remained one of the few in Africa free of Soviet penetration...
...made no mention of Donal Lamont, the Roman Catholic Rhodesian bishop. Lament just received a prison term of ten years for encouraging his medical staff to offer assistance to everyone, black or white...
...believe victory for Rhodesian blacks as well as for those of South Africa will only be achieved at the expense of "blood and iron," and not through the never fruitful shuttle diplomacy of America...