Word: rowland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most overrated: James Reston. Most respected: David Broder. Least respected: Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Most pretentious: Joseph Kraft. Most thoughtful: Richard Strout and John Osborne of the New Republic. Most predictable: Patrick Buchanan and Tom Wicker...
...some time Rowland has been funneling money to Joshua Nkomo, co-leader of the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front.* Among other things, he footed a $65,000 hotel bill for Nkomo and his entourage at the unsuccessful Geneva peace talks of 1976. Last September, Rowland flew Ian Smith in a Lonrho Learjet to a clandestine meeting with Zambia's Kaunda, one of the five front-line black leaders supporting the Patriotic Front. In February, Smith asked Rowland to arrange another meeting between Kaunda and a senior white Rhodesian Cabinet minister. Smith's goal: to get Kaunda...
...leaders on the Executive Council. Sithole loyalists, once known to be virtually penniless, have bought expensive houses and farms, and ride around in Land Rovers and Mercedes automobiles that younger Africans describe sardonically as "Lonrhomobiles." Asked one black student leader at the University of Rhodesia: "What the hell is Rowland trying to do, swap Ian Smith for this crowd of bought blacks...
Many African experts believe that Rowland wants to woo Nkomo away from his Marxist co-leader in the Patriotic Front, Robert Mugabe, and thus clear the way for Nkomo to become the first black President of independent Zimbabwe. Some Mugabe loyalists go further: they accuse Rowland of trying to encourage members of their faction to defect to Nkomo's camp. The allegations were passed on to Tanzania's Nyerere, who has tried assiduously to avoid such a split within the Patriotic Front. Thus Nyerere's reaction to Rowland's maneuvering was predictably furious...
Tanzania's expropriation of Lonrho's assets amounts to no more than a slap on Rowland's wrist. Nyerere's government is talking about a payment of $4 million for the nationalized properties; whatever their worth, they make only a tiny contribution to the company's total revenues ($2.5 billion last year). The Tanzanian President hoped that other African countries would follow his lead in chastising the corporate giant. No such luck. Zambia's Kaunda, whose country's ailing economy might collapse if Rowland abandoned his interests there, made it clear that...