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...Americans seem to think the Rhodesian settlement"--Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian D. Smith last month agreed to a proposal for a two-year transition to black majority rule--"signals a move in that direction for South Africa. You don't realize how strong Vorster is. This is what makes me anxious about Kissinger's settlement; there is nothing that Kissinger got from the Rhodesians that Vorster hasn't wanted for two years. Vorster wants a black government in Rhodesia. Kissinger's settlement, although meant to avert race war, just plays into the hands of the Afrikaaner regime...
...have agreed in principle to the "Kissinger plan," formulated during the U.S. Secretary of State's recent trip to southern Africa, to bring about black rule in Rhodesia within two years. But they disagreed as to what the plan specifically was. As spelled out in public by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, Kissinger's formula would set up an interim government in which whites would share power with blacks-but would remain dominant during the changeover...
Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, most influential of the front-line Presidents, challenged this view, insisting that black majority rule must come immediately. Mozambique's President Samora Machel, host to the largest band (5,000 to 8,000) of Rhodesian guerrillas, said he would continue to support "armed struggle by the gallant freedom fighters of Zimbabwe [the black African name for Rhodesia] until the day independence is achieved." Ian Smith was grousing that Kissinger's package deal included an end to guerrilla warfare and international sanctions. To make matters worse, after a week-long conference in Mozambique...
...even if blacks actually came into formal political power under Kissinger's proposal, the plan would do much to ensure that they did not control the country's economic life. It guarantees "compensation" for Rhodesian whites, creating a fund that according to the Manchester Guardian would total between $1.5 and $2 billion. Details have not been released, but the plan could result in payments to whites who remain in Rhodesia as well as those who emigrate. The fund could also make loans to blacks who wanted to buy businesses--but this would leave them in debt to an institution funded...
Majority rule is also a new goal for Kissinger. Until recently he accepted the Byrd Amendment, which allows U. S. corporations to import Rhodesian chrome, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Even after he publicized his opposition to the Amendment last summer, the Ford Administration did very little to actually get it repealed. Nor has Kissinger done anything to press for prosecution of U. S. businesses like Mobil Oil that have broken the boycott illegally...