Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Feltl september world hatred in Rhodesia overtaken by sadness As end approaches by David Lamb los Angeles times Rhodesia the words afe even but everyone knows the end is with sadness the dominant mood amidst the hatred and War has spread across this land with terrible savagery on both turning the winds of change into a sparing no Rhodesia Whites had convinced themselves that they were differ ent from others who came to Africa As colonialists and stayed As set like people of any color any they agreed Only reluctantly to surrender for they had much to but the concessions May have come too the War now costs Rhodesia million and about 30 lives a every Day an average of 36 Whites take the Chicken abandon ing one of the worlds most pleas ant lifestyles for futures else and almost every evening the 6 Oclock television news starts with this terse announcement combined operations Headquarters has issued a the newscaster the viewers then the casualties Rifleman which emus 22 and single Field reservist Peter 23 and single Colin 18 and single an unnamed african family of burned to death in their Home a me setter James and his wife Mur dered in their Home Robert 26 and killed in an ambush near his farm you cant help getting de says Eileen a social services officer in but you adjust your even though this int a Carefree place you Hope that things will work that the killing will its got to weve got to find a got to get people talking at an Al parties before its too most people realize except for a few Whites who still think everything going to be As of Are living in a fools across past the Parks full of purple blossomed Jacaranda and fountains that shimmer in the Sun on warm Spring an elder Pencil thin Man named Guy Larche sits at his a Clothier by he is chairman of the righting rhodesian action party and on the Wall behind him hangs an inscription of Rudyard killings poem that begins if you can keep your head when All about you Are losing theirs White he is get Ting weaker and and he asks a visitor How he would feel if americans were suddenly told to hand their country Over to the in his solution invade Zambia and Mozambique to wipe out guerrilla Camps and partition Rhodesia into six five for the major one for the if things Drift along As they there will be bloodshed in this coun he overlooking the fact that there already As for id have to leave if a Black govern ment comes with what i stand my life be Worth five one Way or another a Black government is coming in to Rule an Independent and any thing with the name Rhodesia on it already is a collectors stores have already sold out their Supply of rhodesian like any this one has produced its own vernacular to kill a guerrilla is to Slaught a its own melancholy a boy on the and that boy is in my its own strange disregard for first thing my son asks me when i get Back from Reserve duty is How Many gooks did you kill dad says one civil i cant Tell you Why we Blacks and Whites dont loathe each but we says one White Lance there is a considerable amount of Goodwill on both but right now there is also a growing sense among Whites that the situation is about to go out of government officials estimated that As Many As Whites have left mostly for South Africa and in the past 18 at least 200 farms have been abandoned or sold for a pit everyone has a contingency plan if Zimbabwe turns into a Congo or an the governments still Active recruitment of White settlers has fallen on slow lets be says Ian Campbell of the immigration de if you were sitting in the Reading about massacres and planes getting shot would you uplift yourself and your family at this Point in time and move to Rhodesia but some still each month the immigration office averages inquiries from prospective settlers if Are Eligi ble for a transportation sub Sidy and on weeks free in Whites left Rhodesia and 231 moved Here from other coun tries to face an Uncertain whether there will be a place for Rhodesia or so Whites will be determined by whatever Black government takes Power in Zim nowhere in Black has such a Large White Community stayed on after inde nowhere has the econ omy remained in White no where do europeans feel confident that there is a future in Africa for their we want a multiracial society says Josiah a moderate Black who has spent Long periods in jail As an alleged agita its critical for the Economy that the Whites and be Welcome As Long As they dont expect special but things Arent heading in a Good direction at this we told prime minister Ian Smith that unless he settled the War was bound to now theres talk of Banning political what would that achieve the ban remove the causes of the unless the causes Are Rhodesia could be reduced to three Days after the Black opposition which had become Legal Only last were the senior local officer of the patriotic fronts political fled to Lon Don after receiving a tip that he was about to be the White Man arrived in Rhode Sia As a colonialist 88 years ago this in 1923 this Californi sized land became the first african Colony in the British Empire to gain internal in after two years of unsuccessful negotiations with the Smith unilaterally declared Rhodesia carving out a White Paradise in the heart of today the White rhodesian is As conservative and industrious As any people in he has the easy informality of an the stubborn Pride of an but he is isolated his National air line is allowed in no other country but South he cant mail a letter or make a phone Call to neighbouring his Green passport is horned almost the problem if we have to where do we go Luke an insurance if we go to South we Only face the same situation in another two in a but do you know that with my Green i cant even get into the United states to visit our Temple in Utah most White rhodesian simply cannot comprehend Why no one reaches out and we Are with Why no one talks about what a remarkably orderly and efficient country they have built in just 13 they feel and in their anger and they lash out at any accessible Only a month there had been real Hope in Rhodesia that an end was near to the War that Al ready has claimed nearly lives and closed 800 every one appeared prepared to join an Al parties Smith had held a cordial secret meeting in Zambia with Joshua co Leader of the patriotic and both had agreed it was time to Stop the then the optimism Komos men shot Down an air Rhodesia thirty eight persons died in the ten survivors were reported massacred on the Smith and the three moderate Blacks with whom he signed an internal settlement in leading the majority Rule this responded by toughening their int it incredible asked Dennis a White parliament every time we come close to some step in the right direction to bring about i peaceful Transi then All hell lets Loose on this the it was that Rhodesia was always a step behind the always reacting instead of each move was a step too a moment too As a White Rhodesia was no longer the master of us israeli soldiers carry a gush Munim settler on a Stretcher off a West Bank Hilltop where the protestors camped for three Israel stands by Accord settlers evicted from West Bank a photo Tel Aviv a would be jew ish settlers fought with their fists thursday As israeli troops began to evict them from a Mountaintop out Post they set up on the West Bank in Defiance of accords reached Between Egypt and Israel at Camp a defence ministry spokesman said soldiers had to carry demonstrators one by one Down the Rocky slopes to the Road which was about a Kilometre away from the Israel radio said seven soldiers and seven settlers were injured in fist fights when the army moved in on the unauthorized Camp near the Arab town of other settlers barricaded themselves in the radio our people will not go by them said Zvi a spokes Man for the conservative gush Munim our main bloc of 250 people is standing together hand to about 100 settlers moved into the Camp on but the govern ment ordered them out later that troops surrounded the but More sympathizers slipped into the Slonim said three parliament Geula Cohen and Moshe Shamir of the ruling liked bloc and Haim Druckman of the National religious were at the the three say they Are part of the gush Munim which has no registered but Are not members of gush he brew for bloc of the occupied the site to protest the dialled Accord signed at the White House on sunday by israeli prime minister Menachem begin and presi Dent Anwar Sadat of the settlers claim a go Given right to Settle anywhere in the West the biblical land of and fear a proposed israeli evacuation of Sinai settlements could set a Prece Dent for dismantling israels 50 settlements in the West the israeli parliament is to decide on the evacuation of the Sinai Settle ments within two Egypt says it will not sign a peace treaty with Israel until the 20 Sinai settlements Are defence minister Ezer Weizman and army chief of Raphael visited the West Bank site wednesday to ask the group to leave on thurs Israel radio said the settlers agreed to an offer by Eytan to move into a nearby army but Wei Man vetoed the the government apparently wanted to avoid a confrontation similar to violent clashes Between the gush Munim and the labor government of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin three years in gush Munim settlers made eight attempts to Settle at be also near an area heavily populated by seven times troops tried to remove the set prompting clashes which traumatized the the government finally allowed the settlers to move to the nearby army Camp at the 1975 settlement attempts touched off Arab riots in the West but foreign minister mosh Dayan called the latest incident an internal problem and said it would not affect negotiations with the Dayan said Israel would stand firm against unauthorized settlement begin says he agreed to freeze jewish West Bank settlements in occupied territory for three during which time Israel is to con clude a peace treaty with Egypt and negotiate the future of the West Bank and Gaza with Jordan and local Washington says begin agreed to a five year moratorium on the Settle in an interview published thursday in the Wall Street begin said he would refer the conflict to other members of the israeli sum Mit delegation and would respect their better memory about what was agreed to at Camp United states will Plo vows a Deboto Plo Toad Yaster Arafat makes a Point at Syria a pales Tinian guerrillas will begin attacking targets everywhere to make the United states pay the Price for inspiring the Camp David palestinian leaders said a High ranking guerrilla official who asked not to be identified said the decision to strike against the other Western targets was reached during a special meeting of All the main guerrilla group leaders the meeting took place just before the palestinian officials attended the opening session of a Summit Confer ence Here of leaders of rejection St Arab states and the Palestine libera Tion George Leader of the marxist popular front for the liberation of said thursday in a joint interview with the three television networks the guerrillas will do All we can to make Ameri Cas present leadership pay the Price for what it is doing at the present against our National our National the palestinian sources did not elaborate on what ant american actions might be there was no immediate indication whether the re ported palestinian stand was gaining support from the other Summit participants the presidents of Libya and South the Summit participants were officially reported to be considering practical and realistic Steps to neutralize the Camp David agreements Between egyptian president Anwar Sadat and israeli prime minister Menachem syrian foreign minister Abdel Halim Haddam hinted some of their moves might be aimed at undermining Sadat political position at the Arab nation is in a position to provide the conditions to foil the Camp David Haddam told a news asked whether the Hartline states would seek Sadat khad dam replied that they will exert every possible Effort to overcome the present resulting from the falling of president Sadat into israeli conference sources said libyan Leader Moa mar who spoke in a closed session at the sum proposed that the participants prepare for War As the Only Way to restore Arab ;