Word: zimbabwean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better reason, however, lies in the commitment to nonviolent social change Young gained as one of the leaders of the black civil rights movement in the South. As a result of this experience, Young sees both the philosophical and the practical importance of developing non-violent solutions to the Zimbabwean and South African conflicts, before bloody warfare breaks...
...Indeed, the intransigence of leaders like Ian Smith in Zimbabwe and John Vorster in South Africa have lent their argument increasing credence. Young himself says he is well aware of Smith's current inhuman and self-serving strategy: draw the Soviets and Cubans into battle on behalf of the Zimbabwean nationalists in the hope that this will provoke anti-communist sentiments in the U.S. and force the Carter administration to support the Smith regime...
...recognition of Muzorewa's and Sithole's impotence that the leaders of 21 African countries endorsed the more radical Patriotic Front, a coalition of Zimbabwean nationalist groups committed to complete majority rule in Rhodesia. Early this month, the Secretary General of the Organization of African States said bluntly, "Now that a peaceful solution has failed, we have to intensify the struggle, and the Patriotic Front is the only one fighting. So we support the Front." There are 6.2 million blacks in Zimbabwe, compared to a shrinking population of 270,000 whites. A coalition government that allowed the tiny group...
WHEN ANDREW YOUNG was in Africa last month, he proposed a new series of negotiations between Zimbabwean leaders, the five front-line states bordering Zimbabwe, Zaire, Nigeria, and the U.S. Smith's regime was entirely ignored in Young's proposal, a clear recognition that the real split is between the Zimbabweans, not between whites and blacks. The proposal has not been accepted yet, but it does not bode well for the future of a socialist state in Zimbabwe. Both Zaire and Nigeria--who have been excluded till now from negotiation proposals for Zimbabwe--are heavily in debt, and most...
...makes any American move in Zimbabwe suspect. The economic and military interests of the U.S. in South Africa are closely tied to the preservation of some kind of stability, and a radical government in Rhodesia would probably threaten the white South African regime. If the U.S. can push the Zimbabweans to compromise position, American interests in South Africa will be much safer than if a radical Zimbabwean regime shelters South African freedom fighters just as Mozambique shelters the Zimbabweans now. Such a haven for guerrillas would increase the likelihood of a violent struggle threatening the smooth functioning of South Africa...