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...wipe out the guerrillas, the Rhodesian government says it has killed 786 rebels while losing 89 of its own troops. But the Zimbabwe forces, beefed up after three years of low-level and largely ineffective insurgency in northeastern Rhodesia, now have an estimated 10,000 fighters in Mozambique and Tanzania...
...Rhodesia now finds itself completely surrounded by hostile African governments (Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana all supported Mozambique's action), it will get no comfort from Britain. Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government not only applauded Mozambique's imposition of sanctions against Rhodesia but also approved up to $30 million in emergency humanitarian aid to help the hard-pressed Mozambique economy survive the loss of crucial rail revenues from Rhodesia...
London dispatched a special emissary to Salisbury-Lord Greenhill, 62, former Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Presidents Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Seretse Khama of Botswana and Samora Machel of Mozambique warned that unless real progress was made "within weeks, not months," they would remove restraints from black Rhodesian guerrillas anxious to use their territories as a base for operations. Even South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, a longtime backer of Smith, urged Salisbury to grant majority rule to Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks (v. 273,000 whites); the alternative, he said, would...
Special Forces. More than 2,000 Cubans are on loan to African nations other than Angola. Troops provided by Havana form part of President Sékou Touré's bodyguard in Guinea. Cuban bureaucrats supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
...Angolan civil war ground grimly and indecisively on last week. Meanwhile, from Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa to Moscow and London there was a flurry of diplomatic maneuverings that raised hopes a negotiated settlement might still be possible. One push came from a group of Black African leaders, including Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who have already recognized the Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). The group was reportedly urging M.P.L.A. President Agostinho Neto to enter into negotiations with the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), which still controls...