THE vote by the US Senate in favour of lifting sanctions against Rhodesia makes it more certain that the Tory government will recognising the Salisbury regime in the autumn, once the embarrassing obstacle of the Commonwealth prime ministers conference is over.
But this coud for out to be the Tories' first big political mistake, for there is increasing Bishop Muzorewa's phony majority' government running out of steam.
Hardly were the rigged elections over before there was a falling out among the thieves who concocted the internal settlement. Chief Zimbabwe United People's Organisation (ZUPO originally set up with support from the Smith nationalists) joined Sithole's denounce the internal elections and demand a new poli under supervision.
Their real complaint was that they did therefore in the ensuing scramble for choice government posts.
Of course, this is just the sort of division which Ian Smith friends have been counting on to force Chirau's political group and Chiraus. oppose the Rev.
ZANU to Herald and post-election amnesty has continued to get worse.
This is berne out by and his official Muzorewa into ever greater reliance upon them in the new set-up. But it also has the effect of undermining the internal settlement and boosting the Patriotic Front as an alternative to the whole gang of Muzorewas, Sitholes on This is, of course, the other front on which Muzorewa is under fire. are Even the pro-government Rhodesia out editorial that the promised flocking of guerillas to the new regime under the has failed to materialise, and that in fact the war the rising figures on war deaths and casualties. A very disturbing feature of these is the increased number of "terrorist collaborators' (as opposed to straightforward "terrorists') turning up on the death lists: 21 out of 52 in the most recent figures.
Since the , forces are not shy about labelling anyone a terrorist least pretext, must assumed that "terrorist collaborators' unarmed civilians displaying some form of sympathy for the Patriotic Front.
The final headache for Muzorewa — and the one which could eventually be his undoing - is shown in the increasing time spent by the security forces in recapturing cattle appropriated from white farms by inhabitants of the black rural areas rather than in 'terrorist -hunting. Muzorewa connected agricultural warned the government that there is a crisis of expectations millions of black people in our land'.
Meanwhile municipal employees are grumbling restrictions, while black teachers are up in arms about the failure to give them public service status would give them interest-free home loans which have so far been limited to white civil servants).
The Tories are heading for a fall over Zimbabwe. But a foreign policy disaster will only give the government real trouble if there are people in this country prepared to hold the Tories to account for their reactionary policies • The Zimbabwe people can be ours as well by turning Rhodesia into a noose for the Tory government. caught HUGO Blanco, the left-wing has recently well-known among the about recent security, sabotaging 'destruction', (which tation. perks like Blanco deputy action victory of Blanco.
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deputy of the • alliance the Constituent Assembly in Peru and a Trotskyist leader, has been charged by the military regime offences: sabotaging production, offences against public disturbing peace, the agrarian reform, and anti-state agiis the third left-wing to be arrested The Constituent Assemblyruled that there was no case against Victor Cuadros of UDP and Hernan Cuentas of FOCEP. But the Assembly's mandate expires next month, and the regime could then decide to take. further against them well proceeding with the charges against All three were arrested because they have refused to play the regime's and have instead used the Assembly as a forum