Word: truce
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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...
...against late-arriving guerrillas. Indeed, he could hardly condemn only the Front's few stragglers, since it was the Rhodesian security forces who seemed to be dragging their feet in returning to their bases, and some units continued to carry out unauthorized military missions in defiance of the truce...
...farm near the northwestern town of Sinoia, precipitating a clash with Rhodesian paramilitary police that left seven insurgents dead. The Commonwealth monitoring force suffered its first combat-related casualties when a Land-Rover detonated a mine, injuring a British soldier and a senior Patriotic Front field commander. The precarious truce was also marred by some 180 scattered incidents of banditry and lawlessness, from murder and kidnaping to armed robbery and cattle rustling. Patriotic Front officials insisted they were the acts of armed thugs rather than bona fide guerrillas...
...already accomplished what the white Salisbury government of Ian Smith and the biracial regime of Bishop Abel Muzorewa had spectacularly failed to do: scale down the bloodshed and bring large numbers of guerrillas peacefully out of the bush. Compared with a weekly average of about 200 deaths before the truce took effect, last week's total of twelve was an improvement that boosted the morale of many war-weary Rhodesians. "It's working!" exclaimed a jubilant African shopkeeper near the Mozambique border. "Everybody's happy. I'm even sleeping at night...