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...almost a decade, they fought against Rhodesia's white minority regime. The alliance lasted through independence in 1980 and the renaming of Rhodesia as Zimbabwe. But then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, 61, and his former comrade-in-arms, Joshua Nkomo, 67, began to quarrel over the political spoils. Today Nkomo and his Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) are locked in a bitter struggle for control of the country's future with Mugabe and his dominant Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Says a Western diplomat in Harare, the capital: "Mugabe must often wish that Nkomo would just retire...
When black-ruled Zimbabwe was white-ruled Rhodesia, it was a bastion of conservatism and free enterprise. But last week, after four years of independence, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, 60, declared his intention to transform the former British colony into a one-party Marxist state. The announcement was greeted with enthusiasm by the 6,000 delegates and visitors who had gathered at a race track in the capital of Harare for the first congress in 20 years of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). The meeting was conducted in the finest leftist tradition, from rhythmic hand clapping...
...Europe as a code phrase for Christian support of Marxist revolutionary movements. Under Potter's twelve-year stewardship, the W.C.C. has endorsed Palestinian rights and opposed U.S. policy in Central America. It has also made modest grants to guerrilla groups that helped topple the white-run government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and to those that are now trying to end South Africa's apartheid rule. Meanwhile, the W.C.C. has been only mildly critical of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and almost mute about religious and human rights violations in the East bloc...
...ever become non-racist through economic growth. In South Africa, economic growth has accompanied the growth of racial oppression. In South Africa, there is no non-racist, and hence non-political economic world, and there never will be until there is political change. South Africa will change, as Rhodesia, Mozambique and Angola changed, as Algeria and the United States changed: by political settlement. Black South Africans are organizing, and they have rejected peaceful struggle. Too many innocent, unarmed people have died through peaceful struggle at places like Sharpeville and Soweto. The Blacks will fight, and someday they will...
...America's greatest university, whose president has said for years that investment in South Africa is at worst morally ambivalent, now believes that there is no option in South Africa besides profound structural change. Divestiture could help persuade white South Africa that it must surrender as Ian Smith's Rhodesia surrendered, peacefully and without reservation, or face the horrible tragedy of race warfare in which thousands of innocents, Black and white, would die. If Harvard can help in any way to persuade white South Africa that there is no hope for apartheid, shouldn...