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...Bulawayo under the Patriotic Front banner, which he has cleverly appropriated to his own party. He also wooed groups of white businessmen, industrialists and farmers. Nkomo's basic campaign message: reconciliation, political moderation and racial harmony. In contrast to much of his previous rhetoric from exile in Zambia, his official platform makes no mention of socialism or large-scale nationalizations...
...having fought, let us now say: 'It is all over.' " Those conciliatory words were spoken by Joshua Nkomo after he emerged from a green and white Zambia Airways jet onto the tarmac of Salisbury airport. The bulky, silver-haired black nationalist leader had returned to Rhodesia, after more than three years of exile, to begin campaigning for next month's independence elections. Because of a flurry of death threats, security at the airport was extremely heavy: grim reminders of lingering white bitterness over Nkomo's role in Rhodesia's bloody seven-year guerrilla...
...case, risks and casualties have been high on the guerrilla side as well, he says, and Masuku has had his share of personal tragedy. During the daring Rhodesian army raid last April that destroyed Nkomo's home and party offices in Lusaka, the capital of neighboring Zambia, the general and his family were fired on from a roadside ambush as they dashed for safety in their car. The little finger of Masuku's left hand was blown off, but typically it was the innocent who suffered most: his wife and three-year-old son are still hospitalized...
...chartered Air Botswana plane, 84 senior officers of the Patriotic Front's ZIPRA and ZANLA guerrillas landed at Salisbury airport to the cheers of some 50,000 jubilant supporters. The youthful-looking soldiers, dressed in crinkly-fresh camouflage gear, were returning from their bases in neighboring Zambia and Mozambique to begin carrying out the Zimbabwe Rhodesia cease-fire accord. Thousands of black demonstrators waited all day under a blistering African sun. They reveled in the apparent success of the guerrillas' seven-year armed struggle for black majority rule...
...parties agreement reached in London was showing signs of resilience. On the international front, the settlement continued to gain acceptance following the United Nations Security Council vote ending the economic sanctions it had imposed against Rhodesia in 1966. Last week the guerrillas' allies in the frontline African states (Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania and Botswana) underscored their own commitment to a durable peace. In quick succession, each of them ended its sanctions and reopened its borders to the embattled neighbor...