THE London Zimbabwe conference seems likely to end in predictable deadlock. But before that happens it will have given some indication of the shifting political Torcer county Most importantly the government has won concessions from the Patriotic Front •Salisbury essential points of their constitutional proposals.
But even if there were unanimity on a constituion unlikely — the conference would still not have dıscharged its most decisive task. That is to determine who will supervise the transition of power. and how.
This is the result of a considerable tactical victory by the Patriotic Front in the first week of the conference. Foreign Secretary reiterated the British government's belief that the conference's only task WaS Thereby the Tories hoped to gain a paper agreement — or walk-out which would license them to carry out the real settlement behind the scenes.
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The feeble policing returning to political Zimbabwean people. all Britain representation interference in Ian Smith has withdrawn to the shadows. But will the Tories ditch Muzorewa?
consider if the are representation arran racial Muzorewa imagines that this concession will be enough to win a lifting of sanctions it is likely to be disappointed. The Tory committed to interests in Zimbabwe — that is one in which the war is ended and a stable LOCLIE Yet the Front has now made such a solution more likely by its subsequent accommodate to the British and the racist regime on the LES stated readiness to build a 'new' Zimbabwe which drives sections of the liberation movement to seek such dangerous solutions.
The Patriotic Front may well be making concessions in the expectation that they cannot be met remanis coo wae lor ine government to achieve its solution at Lancaster House. But the conference is dangerous beware British map or ess towards Limababwe where elements from the White settler state and the liberation movements coexist exploitative combination.
B! Valerie Coultas but in ASTRID Proll is no longer in prison.
On Wednesday of last week the judge at her trial in Frankfurt, Johanna Dierks, decided to grant her bail after desired the West Berlin Interior said that the key prosecution witness could not appear because he was still on active duty 'successfully fighting against terrorists.
Astrid Proll had been accused by the West German government being a founding member of the Red Army Fraction and of attempting to
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doing so they are playing with fire. The distance between the parties