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...major difficulty, however, is the fact that the proposed settlement does not include representatives of the Patriotic Front, which has some 17,000 guerrillas in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia engaged in a war of attrition with the Smith government. As expected, Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe castigated the internal settlement plan and vowed to step up the fighting. "We are going to hit each other hard," Nkomo said ominously after the announcement last week. "We intend to finish [Smith...
...tiny, mountainous state of Lesotho. There he was reunited with his wife Wendy and their five children, who had driven from the family home in East London to meet him. After that came a tense, two-hour flight over South African territory to Botswana, then another to Zambia and on to London...
...coronation cost about $20 million, which was a bit much for a country whose annual gross domestic product (mostly from diamonds, cotton and timber) is only $250 million. Kenya's Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail deplored the new Emperor's "obnoxious excesses." Bokassa was unfazed by such criticism, since he knows full well that others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse...
...Another possibility is that the Mozambique raids were aimed at widening a rift between Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, who as head of ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People's Union) is co-leader of the so-called Patriotic Front. By devastating Mugabe's guerrillas-but leaving Nkomo's Zambia-based guerrilla forces untouched-Smith may have been trying to tempt Nkomo into joining Muzorewa and Sithole at the talks...
...succeed, must include participation by the groups that have been doing the fighting. As one U.S. official put it, Smith's attempt to bar the Patriotic Front "is like holding elections in South Viet Nam without the Viet Cong." Declared Nkomo angrily from his base in Zambia: "As far as we are concerned, the war continues...