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WHILE PRESIDENT CARTER'S recent repeal of the Byrd Amendment permitting U.S. importation of Rhodesian chrome--a move that will increase white Rhodesia's economic isolation and strengthen the position of the Zimbabwean freedom fighters--suggests that the administration may be developing a new policy in Africa, the recent gift of almost $4 million in weapons and aid to Zaire inspires a less optimistic interpretation of American goals...
...Union Carbide, which owns most of the major Rhodesian chrome mines, recently completed construction of a chrome refinery in South Africa and will be able to continue importing Rhodesian chrome in finished form to America through that channel. The move seems designed simply to win the friendship of the Zimbabwean freedom fighters, whose victory in Rhodesia seems inevitable; it certainly represents no sacrifice on America's part...
...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...
...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...