Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally last week, in an effort to confound his enemies and reinforce his own political position, Prime Minister Ian Smith announced a move that would inevitably delay, if not scuttle whatever chances existed for a negotiated settlement: he called a snap general election the first in three years, to be held Aug. 31. Explained Smith: "It was clear to me that the British believe they are dealing with a divided and weak Rhodesia. I believe we should take action to remove any such illusion...
...next step in the Prime Minister's grand plan-and the platform on which he will fight the election campaign-will be to get what he calls an internal settlement." This means forging a multiracial government that would, he hopes, include at least one relatively moderate black nationalist leader, like Bishop Abel Muzorewa or the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, both of whom are currently inside Rhodesia. By so doing, Smith reasons, he would be conforming to international insistence that his white minority government give way to black majority rule. Smith's goal clearly, is to prevent the "external" Patriotic...
...renewed Smith mandate would prove almost nothing since only 7,500 of Rhodesia's 6.5 million blacks are eligible to vote under the present system. The diplomats doubted that Smith could win the cooperation of any major black leaders, and in any case they were convinced that a settlement must include the Patriotic Front...
British Foreign Secretary David Owen concluded that Smith's call for elections had "killed off, for the time being," any chance of a negotiated settlement. At week's end he flew to Washington for discussions with U S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, but nobody expected another initiative right away. "What we need is a new idea," remarked a U.S. diplomat to an inquiring journalist. "If you ve got one, would you mind sending it over...
...unpredictable. You can't see a decent life ahead for the kids," explains Electrician Clive Davey, who took the chicken run to South Africa this month after living in Rhodesia for 13 years. If there were a political settlement, would he change his mind? "No," he says firmly. "All that Rhodesia has left now is the sun." Ian Edwards, 33, a grain research specialist, emigrated last year to South Africa and later the U.S., leaving a vacant house near Salisbury that he could not sell. His parents stayed on in Rhodesia "They...