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U.S. hails new peace plan for Rhodesia
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP)-A new as a sell-out of the Muzorewa gover- that thwarted a series of British gover- part.
peace plan for Zimbabwe Rhodesia nment under pressure from black nments and, at one point, then- * Recognition that it
took both black guerrillas and the African states. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's technically still the ruling
government of that embattled country But Thatcher, a Conservative, retor- all-out negotiating efforts. It includes: Zimbabwe Rhodesia, that
by surprise yesterday, but the United ted, "The African states have come a * A cease-fire in the war, which has the decision to grant indep
States hailed it as a significant step long way further than I have" in com- killed 15,000 on both sides since 1972. legitimate majority rule is
toward ending the seven-year-old war promising on the issue. . An end to international economic THE GUERRILLAS an
there. g aThe new plan, devised durig a break sanctions imposed when the colony line" African countries th
Both the guerrillas and Zimbabwe in a week-long summit of the Common- unilaterally declared independence in clie tAeresentrblscl
Rhodesian Prime Minister Abel wealth-the association of Britain and 1965 n claim the present blac
Mizorewa expressed suspicions- about her former colonies, involved intense p An all-parties conference on Zim- regime in Zimbabwe Rho
Mizorewatiescexpressedn im- posed of "stooges" acting;
the proposals, but neither side rejected negotiations between Britain and black babwe Rhodesian leaders and d Wite-minr
it outright. African Commonwelath countries that guerrillas.-behind the scenes.
RIGHT-WING Conservatives in have supported the guerrillas in their " A new constitution that reduces,
Britain denounced the plan, drawn up war against the Zimbabwe Rhodesia but does not eliminate, protection for Representatives hereof
in weekend meetings here between government. the 4 per cent white minority. Front guerrillas group we
British Prime Minister Margaret That- THE PLAN IS the latest one for peace * British supervised democratic putting together a stater
cher and other Commonwealth leaders, in the southern African nation, a quest elections in which all parties can take plan, and one guerrillass
is Britain,
authority in
should make
endence once
sachieved.
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at back them
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SPURRED BY INTENSIFIED RESCUE OPERATIONS:
More fleeing Vietnam, refugees say
ABOARD THE SEASWEEP (AP)-
Boat people picked up on the high seas
by this U.S. vessel say they are "100
per cent certain" intensified rescue
operations are encouraging more
people to flee Vietnam, despite in-
creased vigilance against escapes by
the communist government.
"Mr. Carter has given us new hope,"
sais Vo Huu Minh, a 43-year-old refugee
from Ho Chi Minh City, formerly
Saigon, speaking of President Carter's,
decision to send a five-ship Navy task
forace to aid the boat people.
Minh and 45 others who fled on a
small fishing craft said officials warned
that all fleeing boats would be shot at,
and ordered jail sentences for would-be
refugees and executions for escape
organizers.
THE VIETNAM news agency repor-
ted yesterday that a court had senten-
ced one man to death and 26 others to
prison for killing a guard, stealing a
boat, and trying to flee the country
illegally.
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Vietnam last week demanded the
U.S. 7th Fleet halt rescue operations in
the South China Sea, claiming they
"encouraged more refugees and
created tension in Southeast Asia."
Earlier the United States and other
Western nations called on Vietnam to
stem the exodus by sea.
Minh's group said the tough
measures were announced last month
before, the July 20-21 conference in
Geneva on Vietnamese refugees. At the
conference, Vietnam said it would cur-
tail the flow of refugees until a more or-
derly, legal plan could be set up.
"I THINK THEY are stopping us
because they are afraid of foreign coun-
tries cutting off aid to Vietnam," Minh
said. "Vietnam has lost the trust of the
world."
Indonesia yesterday criticized the
rescue missions and said it hoped they
would not influence the pledges Viet-
nam made at Geneva.
Western refugee officials say °there
was a sharp reduction in the number of
Vietnamese refugees arriving in
Southeast Asia last month. The daily
average of arrivals in Hong Kong the
last two weeks of July was 284, com-
pared to 655 the previous month.
MINH'S GROUP, rescued 135 miles
east of Malaysia by the Seasweep,
which is operated by the American
relief agency World Vision Inter-
national, said the crackdown applied to
both Vietnamese and ethnic Chinese
who previously had been able to
arrange "escapes" by bribing officials.
Refugees picked up last week by the 7th
Fleet said Chinese who could afford to
pay could get out of Vietnam and that
only the ethnic Vietnamese were being
stopped.
Elsewhere, a U.S.Navy ship took a
group of rescued boat people to Subic
Naval Base. The 49 men, women, and
children, who arrived at Subic aboard
the 7th Fleet oiler USS Wabash, brought
to 143 the number of boat people picked
up by the U.S. task force.
admitted that they had been caught un-
prepared. Front co-leader Joshua
Nkomo was in Ethiopia when the plan
was announced Sunday night.
Willie Musarurwa, Nkomo's press
spokesman, sounded a skeptical note in
Addie Ababa, saying, "Britain looks af-
ter her own interests in Rhodesia. I do
not think Britain is acceptable as a
supervisor of elections." But he
refrained from issuing an official rejec-
tion.
IN HIS CAPITAL of Salisbury,
Bishop Muzorewa issued a statement
describing the accord as an "insult."
But he, too, stopped short of rejection,
saying instead that he would study the
proposals.
In Washington, White House press
secretary Jody Powell said President
Carter, in an exchange of diplomatic
messages with Thatcher, "has ex-
pressed his satisfaction that the
agreement is a significant step for-
ward."
Powell said Carter also expressed
hope that the plan can "serve as a basis
for a just and lasting settlement in
Zimbabwe Rhodesia."
4
Afghanian troops crush brief rebellion
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Afghan Pakistan has denied any involvement. Intercepted by an army vehicle near
government troops crushed a brief The uprising would be the third army the Jashan parade grounds, the tanks
rebellion in Kabul that left about 400 mutiny since early March, indicating were destroyed by rocket-firing Mi-24
army loyalists and mutineers dead, an growing dissension in the 90,000-man helicopters, he said. The aircraft then
informed source said after his arrival Afghan armed forces, which have bat- attack d Bala Hissar, an historic
from Afghanistan yesterday. tied a stubborn insurgency for much of militar stronghold housingan army
The source, a Kabul resident who was pro-Soviet President Nur Mohammed regiment, he told The Associated Press.
in the capital city during the four-hour Taraki's 15 months in power. THE HELICOPTERS made several
battle Sunday, said the revolt was Taraki's government has been trying sorties each and blasted Bala Hissar for
crushed by three Soviet-built Mi-24 to put down a rebellion in the provinces, two and one-half hours, said the Kabul
helicopter gunships and 18 tanks. Jet but rebels claim to control much of the resident. Of the 18 tanks that surroun-
fighters circled the city but did not fire. countryside, where most of the fighting ded the citadel, six entered firing, he
At least two of the pilots com- has taken place. The insurgents are said. When the base was retaken,
municated in Russian by radio with mainly Moslem fundamentalists op- 'Kabul's military command ordered
Kabul airport where the helicopters are posed to the government's Marxism. that all Bala Hissar troops, whether
based, said the source. He asked not to IT WAS THE heaviest fighting in the "friend or foe," be disarmed, the sour-
be identified, as did other travelers in- mile-high Afghan capital since the ce said.
terviewed. April 27, 1978, coup that installed Some pro-regime officers, members
THERE WAS no independent confir- Taraki's regime. of the ruling Khalq People's Party,
mation that the rebellion was an army The revolt began when three tanks were believed killed by mutineers, he
mutiny. The government-run Radio rolled down from the Bala Hissar said.
Afghanistan made no mention of citadel at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday From the roof of the U.S. Embassy,
mutinying soldiers, reporting only that toward the former royal palace where American officials watched helicopters
Afghan troops had 'wiped out" Taraki was believed to have convened a and jets flying over Bala Hissar until a
Pakistani and Iranian "infiltrators." Cabinet meeting, the source said. police officer demanded they get down,
__ said an embassy staff member who
flew into New Delhi from Kabul.
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VAN HULL stressed that lack of ad- to advance a loan quickly. The travelers interviewed said calm
vertising revenue rather than ridership The fate of the buses is unknown as quickly returned to Kabul following the
was the problem with the buses. "Fif- yet, Van Hull said. She added that they afternoonfighting, but some roads near
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Van Hull said ,Liberty Unlimited. season," she said. ces believe army morale is very low.