Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS of negotiations, Ian Smith and the three black leaders who agreed to talk with him have apparently reached a settlement, which is supposed to be the beginning of a slow transition to majority rule in Rhodesia...
...settlement calls for the creation of a 100-member National Assembly, with 28 seats reserved for white-elected candidates, giving whites virtual veto power over future legislation. In addition, the settlement guarantees compensation for any expropriated property and protects the right to maintain foreign citizenship. Finally, the agreement stipulates that the armed forces would remain under the control of the white-dominated National Assembly...
...surprising that the leaders of the Patriotic Front, the coalition of black nationalists who have led the fight against the Smith government, have rejected the settlement, on the grounds that it will merely create a puppet black government without changing the basic inequalities that now exist in Rhodesia. The Patriotic Front argues that a settlement that does not alter the white community's domination of political and economic power is no settlement...
Then they would agree that possessing 75 per cent of "Palestine" (which is both banks of the Jordan) is a settlement more than fair to them. That is bound to happen, just as Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was bound to happen. And that day may be closer than we think...
...settlement may pose a sticky dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, which have been trying to negotiate a transfer of power in Rhodesia that would include Nkomo and Mugabe. British Foreign Secretary David Owen, for example, has been sharply critical of the talks between Salisbury and the moderate black nationalists. But last week he responded to a barrage of Tory questions in the House of Commons by conceding that the agreement is "a significant step toward majority rule...