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...Vorster's Bite. It was to avoid black rule that Smith broke away from Britain and issued his Unilateral Declaration of Independence nearly ten years ago. For a while, Rhodesia managed to get along pretty well on its own. But since 1972 it has been badly hurt. A spreading guerrilla war has taken nearly 1,000 lives. The worldwide recession proved devastating to an economy already damaged by a decade of international sanctions. Despite his troubles, Smith, 56, a gentleman cattle farmer, said defiantly only six weeks ago: "I don't accept the principle of government based...
...recent months, South African Prime Minister John Vorster has tried several times to persuade Smith to come to terms with the black leadership. After a vain effort in June, one African National Council official complained: "Vorster is barking at Smith when he should be biting...
...weeks ago, Vorster stopped barking and bit. For over a year Vorster has been trying to achieve detente between South Africa and Black Africa. The black states, he hoped, would countenance continued white rule in South Africa in return for his country's aid and technology. With the collapse of Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique and Angola, Vorster realized that his cordon sanitaire of white-ruled states was disintegrating. He also realized that South Africa could hardly afford to prop up the Smith regime in the event of an all-out racial war in Rhodesia. Accordingly, he ordered the last...
...adjacent countries as did the other groups. UNITA draws its support from the Ovimbundu of the southeast, who represent 38 per cent of the population, as well as from basically non-aligned tribes in the center. Ovimbundu living in Southwest Africa are so troublesome to South Africa that the Vorster government is considering allowing them to secede and unite with their brethren in Angola...
Kaunda did not go so far as to ask South Africa to abandon its own racist policies. In fact, Vorster has begun to smooth down some of the rough edges of apartheid-by easing the job restrictions on nonwhites, for instance -thereby making his policies somewhat less objectionable to his black neighbors. Though South Africa was voted out of the U.N. General Assembly last month, Vorster vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid...