RHODESIA: The Zimbabwe Dilemma

What should the U.S. and Britain do about the Muzorewa regime?

One of the most difficult problems facing both the Carter Administration and the new British government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is what to do about Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the breakaway British colony will be known after the June 1 installation of a black-led government headed by Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa. Both Washington and London would like to move cautiously on the questions of whether to recognize the new Salisbury government and whether to lift the economic sanctions currently in effect against...

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