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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...G.O.P. front runner, Ronald Reagan had been helped by the moratorium, since his rivals could not exploit the foreign policy issues as a means of gaining on him. But last week Reagan opened up. He scoffed at Carter's new views of the Soviets. Reagan told TIME: "The only thing that surprises me is that the President is surprised." He added: "President Carter has finally admitted to a truth most Americans have been aware of for some time-the Soviet leaders are not to be trusted...
...boys," as they were affectionately called by supporters, were the members of the ZIPRA and ZANLA guerrilla forces that constitute the Patriotic Front alliance. Their seven-year war for black home rule was ending as they trekked into 16 assembly points in accordance with the British-sponsored ceasefire plan signed last month at London's Lancaster House...
...Robert Mugabe's ZANLA forces; the others were ZIPRA troops loyal to Joshua Nkomo. Considering the great physical difficulties faced by the guerrillas, some of whom marched more than a hundred miles over difficult terrain, it was an extraordinarily impressive turnout. Governor Soames, while refusing a Patriotic Front request to extend the assembly deadline, indicated that he would take no immediate action against late-arriving guerrillas. Indeed, he could hardly condemn only the Front's few stragglers, since it was the Rhodesian security forces who seemed to be dragging their feet in returning to their bases, and some...
...guerrillas attacked a white farm near the northwestern town of Sinoia, precipitating a clash with Rhodesian paramilitary police that left seven insurgents dead. The Commonwealth monitoring force suffered its first combat-related casualties when a Land-Rover detonated a mine, injuring a British soldier and a senior Patriotic Front field commander. The precarious truce was also marred by some 180 scattered incidents of banditry and lawlessness, from murder and kidnaping to armed robbery and cattle rustling. Patriotic Front officials insisted they were the acts of armed thugs rather than bona fide guerrillas...
...obscure the contentious political issues that will sorely test the cease-fire during the coming electoral campaign. No fewer than eleven African parties have registered for the February poll, and incidents of intimidation were already appearing in the townships: four supporters of Bishop Muzorewa, who will be the Front's mam rival, were ordered jailed for four years each last week for political violence, and eight others were sentenced to fines and suspended prison terms. In another apparent act of pre-election terrorism, the wife of a top Mugabe party official, James Bassapo-Moyo, was seriously wounded...