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...once might have been considered the impossible from the Prime Minister: that he satisfy black aspirations, retain white confidence and keep the peace. Yet last week the former revolutionary leader was succeeding at those tasks far beyond anyone's expectations. Said Bernard Miller, white editor of the monthly Rhodesian Farmer: "We were all wrong about him. Everyone's got egg on his face...
...General Peter Walls, 53, stay on as Zimbabwe Rhodesia's Senior Military Commander. The crusty Sandhurst graduate, who has spent much of the past seven years fighting the guerrillas, agreed to preside over the crucial task of integrating the armies of Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo into the regular Rhodesian security forces. Last week General Walls outlined his commitment to this assignment in an interview with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Excerpts...
...nationalist movement. The son of a poor laborer, he was born in the village of Kutama, just west of Salisbury, and educated in Roman Catholic mission schools. After earning degrees from two South African universities, he began his career as a schoolteacher, but ultimately immersed himself in Rhodesian nationalist politics during the 1960s. He was repeatedly arrested for his political activities and spent, all told, more than a decade in jail; as a prisoner, he completed three more university degrees by correspondence...
...immediate test of Mugabe's leadership will be the success of efforts to integrate the guerrillas and the white-led Rhodesian military forces into a single army. The guerrillas have already begun intensive training programs with Rhodesian and British instructors. The initial results were encouraging. At Papa Base, the largest of the cease-fire assembly points for Nkomo's forces, Commander Todd Msipa told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter: "If our orders are to work with the Rhodesians, we can do it, just like we killed under orders." The instructors, for their part, have been generally enthusiastic...
...Alpha Camp the night before the election results were announced, a group of ZANLA guerrilla leaders and Rhodesian officers sat together on camp beds, sipping Rhodesian Burgundy from cracked coffee cups, trading jokes and war tales. Said Lieut. John Steele, the Rhodesian base commander: "This has not happened before. I think we have made a promising beginning." The next morning, the raggedly dressed ZANLA men formed up into perfect ranks as Comrade Morgan, a senior guerrilla officer, strode back and forth before them. "ZANLA has won the elections," he barked. "But no one is allowed to boast because...