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...historic event that sealed the fate of white Rhodesia and changed the life of every white man in Africa south of the Zambezi River was the Portuguese revolution in April 1974. The military coup against the Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes...
Though whites in Salisbury do not like to admit it, Rhodesia is already at war along its entire 800-mile border with Mozambique, from the Zambezi River in the north to the Limpopo in the south. Local villages have been terrorized by black guerrillas, buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely roads in broad daylight, buses blown up by mines. Army helicopters hunt guerrillas in scrubland and forested hill country along the frontier, and patrols in brown and green camouflage probe cautiously through the brush, automatic weapons at the ready. To protect themselves, white farmers have installed pushbutton alarm systems that...
...expect it to last more than 30 minutes," Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith growled on the eve of his meeting with black Rhodesian leaders. In fact the meeting, held in a white railway car perched on a bridge 310 ft. above the Zambezi River and overlooking thundering Victoria Falls, was spread over 14 hours. While it came to nothing, there was one consolation for Smith's foes. Mused Bishop Abel Muzorewa, head of the African National Council that claims to speak for Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks: "It was the longest 30 minutes of Mr. Smith...
...bridge in question overlooks the mile-wide Victoria Falls, whose plunge off a black basalt cliff into the Zambezi River creates a column of spray more than 1,000 ft. high that gives rise to the African name for the cascade: Mosi-oa-tunya (the smoke that thunders). A white line halfway across the 657-ft.-long bridge marks the border between Rhodesia and Zambia. Directly over that line, the Rhodesian government of Prime Minister Ian Smith and the black leaders of the country's African National Council will meet next week. Their purpose: to begin negotiations that will...
Died. Rupert Fothergill, 62, Rhodesian game ranger who headed "Operation Noah," a five-year (1959-63) rescue effort that saved more than 6,000 warthogs, monkeys, snakes, lions, elephants, rhinos and other wild beasts from the rising waters of a man-made lake behind the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Rhodesia...