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...immediate impetus for Machel's action was the growing conflict along the border between Rhodesian government forces and guerrillas of the Zimbabwe Liberation Army, which is dedicated to overthrowing Smith's regime by force. Only days before Machel's tough speech, Rhodesia had boasted of engaging in "hot pursuit" operations against the guerrillas-even though Machel had warned that such incursions into Mozambique's territory would be considered an act of war. According to Machel, Rhodesian jets strafed the border village of Pafuri, killing seven Mozambican civilians and two soldiers. He said that Mozambique had shot...
Since launching Operation Hurricane in December 1972 to wipe out the guerrillas, the Rhodesian government says it has killed 786 rebels while losing 89 of its own troops. But the Zimbabwe forces, beefed up after three years of low-level and largely ineffective insurgency in northeastern Rhodesia, now have an estimated 10,000 fighters in Mozambique and Tanzania...
Keenly Felt. The local civilian populations along both sides of the border have become victims of both government and guerrilla reprisals. Salisbury has charged that Zimbabwe guerrillas have mutilated civilians suspected of being informers. There have also been reports of atrocities by Rhodesian forces against civilians...
Through Lord Greenhill, its special envoy to Rhodesia, London has told Smith that if he would accept early black majority rule, Britain would 1) provide troops to protect whites and blacks alike during the transition period, and 2) underwrite the main financial cost of resettling Rhodesian Europeans in Britain and other Western countries. Although Smith now concedes that majority rule will have to come considerably sooner than he once envisaged ("not in my lifetime"), he still insists that an African majority government is 10 to 15 years off. That stubbornness prompted British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan to declare in exasperation...
...African countries and a siege economy at home. "It's no longer the eleventh hour for Rhodesia but the 59th minute before Armageddon," said a British official in London. This view is based on the assumption that South Africa will not enter the war in force on the Rhodesian side, since such a move might trigger an Angola-scale Cuban intervention. At the moment, the British are resigned to the Cubans participating in a training and logistical role. But they do not think Fidel Castro's forces will engage in heavy combat as they did in Angola, unless...