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...been released, but the plan could result in payments to whites who remain in Rhodesia as well as those who emigrate. The fund could also make loans to blacks who wanted to buy businesses--but this would leave them in debt to an institution funded largely by the U. S. and which South Africa is likely to have a large role in administering. The net effect would be to leave the Zimbabwean economy in the hands of Western capital and the white minority. For this reason the plan has been denounced by the leaders of progressive African countries like Tanzania...
Majority rule is also a new goal for Kissinger. Until recently he accepted the Byrd Amendment, which allows U. S. corporations to import Rhodesian chrome, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Even after he publicized his opposition to the Amendment last summer, the Ford Administration did very little to actually get it repealed. Nor has Kissinger done anything to press for prosecution of U. S. businesses like Mobil Oil that have broken the boycott illegally...
...examination of the U. S.-British plan for Zimbabwe, which Kissinger is currently pushing, shows just how committed he is to majority rule. The transitional government would be divided between a council of state and a council of ministers. The council of state would be the decisive body, for it would have the power to write the country's new constitution and pass its laws. While it would include equal numbers of black and white members, the council would be chaired by a white and all decisions would require a two-thirds majority, giving the whites--who are outnumbered more...
...Western interests" that Kissinger sees threatened by radical movements in South Africa are first and foremost Western business interests. In Chile and in Vietnam, it was blatantly obvious that Kissinger was more concerned with protecting U. S. capital than protecting democracy, more interested in defending profits than defending human rights. In spite of superficial differences, the same is true of his policies in Southern Africa...
...fact that Kissinger looks out first and foremost for the interests of U. S. business is thus not exactly unusual. It says more about the system he represents than about his personal preferences...