Word: smiths
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...from foreign countries. The largest foreign contingent is British, and there are at least 100 Americans, most of them Viet Nam veterans. Since they face possible loss of their U.S. citizenship for fighting in Rhodesia, the Americans are reluctant to disclose their real names. One, who calls himself Jimmy Smith, praises his fellow fighting men, both black and white, but adds, "It's like swatting mosquitoes. You kill a bunch and hold off another bunch, but there are so many around that a few always get through and bite...
Meanwhile, the government's efforts to achieve a political settlement remain stalemated. Prime Minister Ian Smith is still committed, under the "Kissinger plan," to a transition to African majority rule by September 1978-but largely on his own terms. His plan is to bypass the guerrilla organizations, notably the Patriotic Front headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, and make a deal with black moderates. To improve the climate of negotiation, he recently pushed through Rhodesia's Parliament a bill to reduce discrimination. Under the new law, racial restrictions in hotels and restaurants are theoretically abolished...
...Ideally, Smith would like to deal with Bishop Abel Muzorewa's United African National Council. So far, Muzorewa (who is currently in Europe, presumably on a fund-raising trip) has refused to negotiate, though he might be willing to do so if he could avoid being branded a traitor by the Patriotic Front. Muzorewa has no guerrilla organization and practically no support from neighboring African states, but he is undeniably popular in Rhodesia and is hailed at rallies in Salisbury's huge Highfield township as "the black Moses." In the event of a broadly based plebiscite, Muzorewa might...
Died. Cecil Woodham-Smith, 80, British historian and biographer who combined assiduous research and graceful writing to make the 19th century come alive; of heart disease; in London. A former advertising copywriter and novelist, Mrs. Woodham-Smith knew so much about Florence Nightingale that in 1942 she was urged to write her biography by a publisher friend. She spent six years working on her book, which earned unanimous critical acclaim. She also wrote about the charge of the Light Brigade (The Reason Why, 1953), the Irish famine and the early years of Queen Victoria. Of the long hours she spent...
...final game, the Crimson players lost 12-0 but the play of newcomer Sid Smith at wing and the reappearance of veteran Sal Diagostino after a layoff provided reason for optimism...