Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier this year, Smith made a long overdue offer to begin sharing political power with the blacks immediately and to hold free elections, based on universal adult suffrage, by Dec. 31. This proposal was accepted by a number of Rhodesia's most prominent moderate black nationalists, who had long opposed Smith's regime. The popular Bishop Abel Muzorewa, for example, sees Smith's plan as a chance to establish black rule peacefully, although there is mounting evidence that this view is much too optimistic (see WORLD). Smith's plan has been rejected by the leaders of the radical Patriotic Front...
...Peech, a 31-year-old farmer from the Macheke district, east of Salisbury, was a third-generation Rhodesian and as such a colonial aristocrat. Nonetheless, he believed that white farmers like himself could stay, survive and flourish in a black-ruled Zimbabwe. A longtime critic of Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front party, Peech had organized several meetings with Macheke's tribesmen and informally had tried to work out a cease-fire with black national guerrillas in the district. Last week Tim Peech had become another grim statistic in Rhodesia's bloody civil war. While working the bush...
...internal settlement that Prime Minister Smith worked out last March with three moderate black leaders?Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau?had not been expected to provide an easy transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia. Last week it was clear that Smith's settlement plan had not only faltered, but might be close to failure...
...Smith had relied on the promises of his three black colleagues in Rhodesia's interim government that they could persuade large numbers of guerrillas to defect, thereby taking the sting out of the debilitating bush war. Instead, guerrilla attacks have increased in strength and boldness. Today, Rhodesia's main highways, and not just back-country roads, are perilous for convoys. A few months ago, isolated farms, missions and villages were the main targets for guerrillas belonging to the Patriotic Front. Salisbury's outskirts are checkered with new shanty towns, as blacks flee tribal lands for the safety of the city...
Tensions between blacks and whites have grown as a result of a threat by Smith to "rethink" the March agreement, under which white voters are supposed to ratify by Oct. 20 a new constitution leading to black power. If that is approved, whites and blacks are scheduled to vote for a new government in early December...