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...Namibia. By agreeing to a transition to majority rule in those territories, he believes South Africa can gain enough time for itself to build lasting ties with its black neighbors. At Zurich two weeks ago, Vorster hinted to Kissinger that he was prepared to step up the pressure on Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Accordingly, Vorster last week treated Smith to a Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality." Evidently, he warned Smith that Pretoria's future capacity for helping Rhodesia will be increasingly limited. As Smith well knows, an estimated...
Vorster is convinced that if the Rhodesian and Namibian problems can be settled, his own country will gain some precious time in which to build a genuine détente with black Africa. For that reason he welcomed the Zurich meeting. For the benefit of his conservative constituency, he criticized a speech in which Kissinger openly denounced apartheid, and fretted that he would not negotiate with him on the Sabbath.* In truth, Vorster came to Zurich a chastened man prepared to do business. For his part, the Secretary easily extracted from Vorster enough concessions to justify the meeting...
While Vorster and Kissinger were talking in Zurich, five African presidents met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, at the behest of President Julius Nyerere. The African leaders tried hard to bring about a reconciliation among the three principal Rhodesian liberation movements, which have long been feuding, but failed once again. In truth, the disunity among Rhodesian blacks is almost as big an impediment to majority rule as Ian Smith's intransigence. In the end the five presidents could only agree that the guerrilla war should be "intensified," but, on the other hand, they had no objection to a Kissinger...
Vorster and Kissinger will probably also discuss a British-American plan under which the two countries would, in effect, subsidize Rhodesian whites for agreeing to black rule. Details of the plan are not yet known, but the cost is estimated at $1.5 to $2 billion...
That wasn't enough for The Times. In Thursday's paper we are given the official Salisbury press release version of the Mozambican retaliation for the Rhodesian attack, complete with homeless and brave white people and savage black maniacs. This courtesy of Reuters, graciously printed on the front page by The Times. Again, no guerilla or Mozambique comment, or any African black nation's comment for that matter. Then on the ed page The Times deplores Rhodesia for the thousandth time and backs majority rule. The clear reason for this: embarrassment at running all the other racist garbage this week...