Word: truce
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebels stream in from the bush, only scattered violence mars the truce...
...plan, which took effect last week, would confine the guerrillas to their scattered assembly camps and the Rhodesian security forces to their 42 relatively central military bases until an independent Zimbabwe government is formed after February's majority-rule elections. Monitoring the truce, under the supervision of British Governor Lord Soames, are 1,200 Commonwealth troops, drawn from Britain, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Kenya...
...former government's Prime Minister, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will be the Front's main rival in the February elections. The raucous demonstration was both a sign of the guerrillas' broad-based popular support and a reminder of the volatile emotions that still threaten the fragile truce. "Zimbabwe out of the gun," rang an aggressive cheer...
...killed in continuing clashes and sporadic skirmishes between guerrillas and Salisbury security forces. Three Royal Air Force troops, members of the Commonwealth monitoring force, also died when their Puma helicopter crashed after accidentally striking a power line; they were the first casualties of Britain's sponsorship of the truce. In other provocations, guerrilla supporters were regularly abused by hostile blacks as well as by whites. On several occasions white police harassed marchers at newly legal Patriotic Front rallies and, in one case, fired tear gas on a crowd carrying flowers to the airport welcome. More ominously and mysteriously...
...leave Rhodesia, like they left Israel and Cyprus, where the fighting continued after they left." Mugabe contributed to the confusion by sending conflicting signals: though he has radioed repeated messages ordering his troops to assemble at the cease-fire stations, he was also threatening not to comply with the truce plan until he received assurances that all of the 1,000 South African troops in Rhodesia had departed...