Carter and Southern Africa
Carter and Southern Africa
A Balance Sheet
This chapter illustrates the controversy provoked in the United States in 1977 by policy toward Rhodesia. Things, however, changed in the spring of 1978, when Smith reached an agreement with Bishop Abel Muzorewa and two other black leaders that assured, the CIA said, “continued white domination of the military, police, judiciary and civil service.” Many in the U.S. Congress and the American press demanded that Carter endorse this internal settlement and lift the mandatory sanctions that the UN Security Council had imposed on Rhodesia in the late 1960s. Their ranks swelled after Smith held elections in Rhodesia in April 1979 that supported his internal settlement. Black turnout was high, and international observers reported that the voting had been largely free and fair.
Keywords: controversy, United States, Rhodesia, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Smith, black leaders, CIA
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