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= Rhodesia =

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The other day in the mail I received a full page ad from the
St. Louis Globe Democrat. It had been taken out by a man who had just
returned from his 24th trip to Rhodesia.

The ad consisted of photos taken in Rhodesia with identification
and explanation printed beneath each one. They were not pleasant to
look at and the printed word was even less pleasant to read. There
were pictures of Rhodesian citizens -- always black and always dead--
their hands tied behind their backs. They lay sprawled on the ground
where they had fallen when Russian made automatic weapons mowed them
down.

In one photo the innocent victims had been burned alive. There
was a hard-to-look-at picture of a village chief. He was still alive.
His lips, ears and hands had been cut off. The caption said his wife
had been forced to cook and eat them.

There was only one picture of a white Rhodesian, a tiny baby girl,
the only child of a young farm couple. Her parents were at work in the
fields when the guerillas, perpetrators of all these horrors, came to
their farm home. The nursemaid, a young black girl, tried desperately
to save the baby. She was clubbed to the floor and the baby was then
bayoneted a dozen times.

These guerillas are the forces of Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe
who call themselves and their murderous gangs, "The Patriotic Front".
They claim they are fighting for majority rule in Rhodesia and one
man, one vote. Since 1972 they have killed an estimated 9,000 of their
fellow Rhodesians--mainly blacks.

In the meantime three black leaders of more than 85 percent of the
black population of Rhodesia have joined with Prime Minister Ian Smith
to bring about majority rule based on one-man, one-vote. These four
have such support from the people that our Secretary of State on his
recent visit to Rhodesia was greeted by large crowds of black Rhodesians
bearing signs proclaiming their support of the present plan.

But our government says it will not accept the agreed upon interim
government of Rhodesia unless it includes Nkomo and Mugabe, And so we
continue the ridiculous economic sanctions prescribed by the United
Nations, bringing hardship and more guerilla killings to the citizens
of Rhodesia, black and white.

What makes our governments attitude impossible to understand is
that Nkomo and Mugabe still claim they are fighting for majority rule
and one-man, one-vote. But the new interim regime has not only 
proclaimed majority rule and one-man, one-vote, it has invited Nkomo and
Mugabe and their guerillas to return to Rhodesia and take part in the
elections. There will be total amnesty, no reprisals, release of all
political retainees and government help in reuniting the marauders with
their families. Nkomo and Mugabe have been asked to participate in
forming the new government. They've refused. It boggles the mind to
hear our government in the face of all this refusing to accept the
interim government because Nkomo and Mugabe cannot have it on their
own terms. 

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>05/15/[[Radio1978|1978]]</TD></TR>
<TD>Book/Page</TD><TD>[[Radio_Commentary_Books#Reagan.27s_Path_to_Victory|RPtV-299]]</TD></TR>
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<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
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