Word: westerners
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...armed. The Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, has 12,000 guerrillas inside Rhodesia and thousands more in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia. The prospect is that it will fight on as long as it thinks it has a chance of coming to power in Salisbury. Western governments and several other interested parties made overtures last year to coax Nkomo into abandoning Mugabe and joining the interim Rhodesian regime. The efforts failed. Dismissing last week's results and the April election as well, Nkomo scathingly told TIME: "The people will have won the war by April...
Smith's hope is that the elections in Rhodesia may persuade the U.S., Britain and other Western governments to take the lead in ending the 13-year U.N. economic sanctions against his country. Once a new black government is accepted as legitimate by other nations, it might then be able to gain some military support, if only from South Africa and a few others, in fending off the guerrillas. A likelier prospect is that the guerrilla war will turn into a broader civil war as the various black factions, separated by tribal, personality and ideological divisions, battle each other...
...Carter policy [on human rights] responds to the demands of our time, and it is very important that it receive even broader support. In the Western press, the thought has sometimes been expressed that the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, in whose success the Soviet Union is interested, have opened up possibilities of applying pressure on the U.S.S.R. on the question of human rights. In my opinion, such a viewpoint is not correct...
Another problem widely discussed in the Western press concerns the use of boycotts-Scientific, cultural, economic and so forth-as a means of applying pressure on the U.S.S.R. for the purpose of freeing at least some political prisoners. I welcome such boycotts as a means of expressing protest. However, the problem of boycotts is complex and contradictory...
...smoke. Instead, they are traded back and forth by Rumanians, who prize them as a luxury item. The street price is three times the $1.10 cost per pack in the special dollar shops run for foreigners. "It's a startling feature of life here," says one Western diplomat. "You can't conduct business without at least having to consider using Kents-not necessarily as payment, but as a lubricant to keep things going smoothly...