Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is particularly discouraging is the impact of recent events on the prospect for an overall settlement. If Prime Minister Begin believes withdrawal from Lebanon can be used as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from Washington and Cairo, he could well be in for a surprise. The invasion is likely to do nothing except severely set back negotiations and divert attention from the main issues of a Palestinian homeland and the occupied territories...
Thanks largely to pressure from African states that reject the internal settlement, Muzorewa was refused permission to address the U.N. on a visit to New York last week. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, the bishop conceded that the "socalled internal settlement" was imperfect, adding that "it was the best we could get, and the important thing is that we now have a basis for the transfer of power." Muzorewa firmly denied the familiar charges by Nkomo and Mugabe that he is, in their words, a puppet of Smith's. Said the bishop: "Nkomo negotiated with Smith...
Smith's settlement posed an awkward diplomatic problem for the U.S. and Britain, which had proposed an alternative plan that would include leaders of the Patriotic Front in negotiations. The main features of the Anglo-American proposal: 1) Smith's government would resign and be replaced by an interim regime headed by a British proconsul; 2) elections for a new multiracial government, on a one-man, one-vote basis, would be internationally supervised; 3) rebel and Rhodesian forces would be merged...
Neither Washington nor London wants the Communist-supported guerrillas to dictate the future of an independent Zimbabwe (the nationalists' name for Rhodesia). Nonetheless, British and U.S. policymakers see several flaws in Smith's settlement. Although Muzorewa is probably the country's most popular black leader, Western diplomats who know the bishop agree that he lacks the political savvy to serve effectively as President of Zimbabwe. Chirau is thought to be too closely identified with Smith, while Sithole, although a shrewd tactician, lacks a broad political base. The British believe that Nkomo can still be wooed away from...
...Vance was ambiguous. Said he: "We remain committed to working with all the parties to achieve a peaceful solution and majority rule in 1978." But a split may be developing between Washington and London. British officials said last week that they might be inclined to recognize Smith's settlement if he showed good faith by permitting international supervision of elections, promoting blacks to high officer rank in Rhodesia's armed forces, and appointing blacks to serve along with whites in the country's civil service. Declared British Foreign Secretary David Owen: "I am unrepentant in going...