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Three members of the 25th reunion class of 1972 were given the same honor--Thomas F. Birminghman '72, a state senator since 1970; Jamie Shona Gorelick '72, former U.S. deputy attorney general and current vice chair of the Fannie Mae corporation; and Elizabeth A. Kellogg '72, associate professor of biology and Putnam fellow at the Arnold Arboretum...
...early years in Manicaland in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. During the War of Independence, her family was forced to leave the country as political refugees. Maraire has lived in Jamaica, Canada, the United States and Europe, and she is fluent in many languages including French, English, Spanish and Shona, her mother tongue...
Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe joined hands in 1980 to fight a guerrilla war against their country's white-minority government. But soon after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the longtime rivals parted acrimoniously. Mugabe ruled the country as Prime Minister with the support of his ethnic group, the Shona, who make up about 80% of the population. Nkomo headed the main opposition party, composed of the Ndebele people. He was accused by the government of being behind Ndebele freedom fighters in the area of southwestern Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland. Since 1982 the rebels and the Shonas have waged a war that...
Mugabe's chief rival, Joshua Nkomo, fared well only in Matabeleland, the western homeland of his Ndebele tribe, where resentment of Mugabe's predominant Shona tribe runs high. Although Nkomo's party, the Zimbabwe African People's Union, won all 15 of the Matabeleland constituencies, redistricting had eliminated five seats that ZAPU held in the previous Parliament. Elsewhere, Mugabe's victory removed from Parliament three minority opposition parties, including pre-independence Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council, which had held three seats...
However, the political feud between the two leaders continues, reinforced by the rivalry between Mugabe's 7 million-strong Shona tribe and Nkomo's 1.5 million-member Ndebele tribe. It flared again last week. More than 4,000 policemen and soldiers, including the Zimbabwean army's North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, sealed off Matabeleland's main city, Bulawayo, and systematically flushed out so-called political agitators, criminals and dissidents. The soldiers arrested more than 1,300 people in house-to-house searches and at roadblocks...