Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration has tried hard in the past two years to forge new ties with black Africa. What it fears now is a steady enlargement of the Rhodesian guerrilla war, with the U.S. caught in the position of reluctantly supporting the Muzorewa government and with the Soviet Union and Cuba looming ever larger in African eyes as the liberators of the oppressed Rhodesian majority. Some observers are dreaming of unexpected solutions, such as an alliance between Mugabe, himself a Shona, and Muzorewa. But this is probably wishful thinking. As one official of Nkomo's organization says, "This war will...
Like so many other conflicts, Rhodesia's turmoil has also become a war of words. Among blacks and whites alike, talk about the struggle is studded with slang that derives from many sources: Afrikaans, tribal dialects, rugby and cricket jargon, even the vernacular of Viet Nam. A glossary...
Even as the election proceeded, Rhodesia's blacks were painfully aware of one grim fact of their country's life that would not soon be changed by the transition to majority government: it is they who have suffered most during the civil war, and their suffering will go on. Of those killed in the six years and four months of fighting so far, 97% have been blacks. They continue to die at a rate of 30 a day, double the casualty rate of a year ago when the "internal settlement" agreement was signed. Caught between the government forces...
...range in age from six to 15, walk miles through Salisbury each day selling vegetables. He guards the living space and grows bitter. "They come around now telling us to go back home, we are free, the country belongs to the Africans. But the guerrillas still have guns. The war will never stop, and whoever says we're safe is a liar...
...wound near her heart. She had been back in her boarding school only a week when ZANIA guerrillas entered the dormitories one night as the pupils were undressing for bed. Three hundred children-some naked, others in nightdress-were marched off in one of the first abductions of the war...