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...ruinous war. The country is virtually bankrupt and in debt to white-ruled South Africa for $350 million. The war turned nearly 850,000 into homeless refugees, many of whom live in the rubber-tent slums of urban shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally abundant corn crop has been savaged by severe drought; about 200,000 people are dependent...
...Zimbabwe is far better off than neighboring Zambia and Mozambique. Naturally endowed with fertile soil and abundant mineral resources, the country also has a strong manufacturing sector, developed after international sanctions were imposed following the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence. With the trade boycott lifted, economists predict that the economy will grow by 3% this year...
...rival armies have had mixed results; some training camps have reported persistent tensions and disciplinary problems among the guerrillas. Another potential threat to future stability: about 5,500 guerrillas loyal to Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe's partner in the former Patriotic Front, refuse to return from their bases in Zambia, largely because of suspicions arising from their leader's marginal role in the new government...
Most of the official and unofficial foreign observers, including British Election Commissioner Sir John Boynton, concluded that the elections had been surprisingly free and fair. That judgment was shared by the Presidents of the so-called frontline African states (Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana, Angola, Tanzania), who gave the guerrillas crucial support during the war. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere had earlier suggested that the British had rigged the vote in favor of Muzorewa. Celebrating Mugabe's victory with a champagne toast, Nyerere declared: "This is not the first time I have been proved wrong...
...October 1976, Mugabe formed the Patriotic Front alliance with Nkomo, whose smaller, Soviet-armed Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) was operating out of bases in Zambia. Last fall, the Patriotic Front co-leaders met with representatives of the biracial Muzorewa government for an all-parties peace conference at London's Lancaster House. Chaired by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the 15-week talks produced a majority-rule constitution, a cease-fire accord and a transitional plan that temporarily returned the country to British colonial rule...