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Zimbabwe, the physical heart of southern Africa, is once again its political and spiritual battleground. As I write this, President Robert Mugabe is trying to block democratic change that challenges his 28-year rule. But he and his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union???Patriotic Front, do not regard the people's votes as the arbiter of power - or, if they do in theory, they do not accept in practice that they could ever lose an election. In Mugabe's eyes, his right to rule derives from his status as the leader of the liberation movement, the breaker of white...
State of the Union???Flashback...
...Israelis and their "Lebanese Christian puppets" for the massacre. Zehdi Labib Terzi, P.L.O. observer at the U.N., denounced what he called the "genocide" in West Beirut, and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat, declaring that as many as 1,400 had been slain, appealed for help?including from the Soviet Union???in protecting the lives of Palestinians in Lebanon. The U.S., France and Italy, the three nations that had contributed troops to the peacekeeping force in Lebanon last month, called on the UN. to dispatch observer teams to the "place of suffering and human loss...
...Pennsylvania raised legitimate questions?as well as much unnecessary hysteria?about how safe and useful nuclear power will be as a partial substitute for the imported oil that the eruption in Iran will help make ever more costly. The conclusion of a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union???more modest in scope than many Americans had urged, but basically useful to the U.S.?led to congressional wrangling that raised doubts about whether the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty will even be ratified in 1980. The SALT debate put a substantial strain on U.S.-Soviet relations, which were deteriorating...
This small settlement buoyed the union???and also cheered up Labor Secretary Ray Marshall. Communications between the union and the B.C.O.A. had broken down over the previous weekend. Here, thought Marshall and his mediators, was another path to try?using the P. & M. agreement as a pattern for a national contract with the U.M.W. Marshall's aides began meeting separately with the two sides at Labor Department headquarters on Monday afternoon...