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Zimbabwe Dissident Campaign Widen s . JATUSAr,UC'JJT'7,1SJ2-TKEC:UAT!r-1J Plans'To, Break Boycott Collates- force combed the bush along ; . ; l Zimbabwe's ' .western frontier looking ' -for l dissident guerrillas ' Hate last week, Prime iMinister Robert Mugabe j -Hbroke his initial silence : Tand Wanted the rival I ZAPU political party for ., : the latest attacks against I t his government, r .- Mugabe claimed last : Thursday that the rebels r, i were -using ZAPU arms ' , ; and had been given a : program 1 of , action by : leaders of the opposition ; party, which controls 20 of the 100 seats in Zim : bab we's parliament . The ; prime minister also call l ed on ZAPU to redirect : the dissidents, either :- publicly or clandestinely, j Responding to; Mugabe, ZAPU chief . Joshua Nkomo issued a, statement vdenying thatj his party was responsible! : for' the violence, and het 'appealed to the rebels,1 : who are holding severalj , foreign tourists hostage,; to release their prisoners safe and sound. f On -July. 23 nine : foreign tourists and their guide were taken hostage .by armed men who had! created a roadblock on I the highway from Bui a way o to Victoria Falls. The kidnappers, who later released the guide and. three of the tourists, threatened to t kill all six remaining i hostages unless the Zimbabwe- government ' releases several aides of Joshua Nkomo who are now in jail. (The bodies ' of three tourists, iden tified as British; .were found Monday on a hillside across the coun-' try from where they were taken hostage) Two days later, 1 saboteurs using ' : sophisticated explosives, : blew up 13 aircraft at Zimbabwe's main air base at Gweru, including four new Hawk jets pur chased from Britain three weeks ago at a cost . of $35 million.;, ; f t ' ) - r V; vv, y, ' " . J , I f t. AN South African ) plans to break a world '' soccer boycott collapsed , late last month when a ' $1.7 million tour by a team from Britain , was cancelled with three of " the six matches, unplayed. Less than. 7,000 turned-up for the.-; ' first match , and only ; 3,000 for the second, when normally as many as 45,000 spectators (mostly black) show up . for , major soccer , mat ches. ' ' . Black community' groups, such as the Aza nian People's Organiza tion (AZAPO), and the South African Council of Churches had called for a boycott of the tour and for maintenance . of the international isola tion of South Africa in sport. In addition, the world soccer body FIFA Receives Honorable Discharge SAN DIEGO J)arryl Summons, 22, Columbia, S.C., discharge in hand, leaves the San Diego Naval Base, He had been sentenced to three months at hard labor for mistreatment of a Michigan seamann who died in custody aboard the USS Ranger. Summons' conviction and sentence triggered charges of racism against the Navy. His sentence was commuted and he received an honorable discharge. ment. The Zimbabwe military has (been con; founded, meanwhile, i its attempt to locate th dissidents holding the six foreign tourists, despite a manhunt involving roughly 1500 troops. Press reports from the area say the security pbruary. Nkomo's Hsmissal was prompted by the discovery of a ' (large arms cache on pro perty belonging to' ZAPU and by govern ment claims of an op position coup plot. At the time there was sculatiorv that Mufabeis-ZANU party hopes of; tlPIPIioto alliance- or merger with Nkomo but wished to pursue this sort of rela tionship with other ZAPU figures who were kept on in government. While there continues to be ZAPU participation in the Cabinet, however, the ZAPU grassroots organization Unas been forces, nave ioi- uicrau l had civen -ntitm hones ot l. jt.. ' k.. sons last week in connee- , tion. which is being' :ni Aiiif!x-i!'-L:Lx treated harshly by the IT Ul III CI VJUVtIIlIIieilL tion with the sabotage at Thornhill Base, and there continues, to be some speculation about 1 possible South African backing for an attack. On a number of,occa-. sions Mugabe's ad-j ministration has accused: South Africa of using Zimbabwean agents to 'destabilize' the govern-' search parties ' The hostages include two Americans, two Britons and two Australians. The latest incidents " come as part of a pattern of violence that has escalated since Nkomo was sacked ' from his Cabinet post in Officials To Fight ression In C-R Reg NNPAJ Arthur S.i Fleming, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ; May Your beautiful family proiper! Providisg fcr a family today requires a variety of resources. Among those resources is a sound banking institution. Services such as trust funds, savings accounts, savings certificates and a variety of loan plans could keep ycur faruly's financial picturp a happy one! Ask us about these services ... J MECHANICS & FARMERS BANK 618 Faytttivet Stmt 11 6 Wnt Pints! Strttt UmbrFDIC 411 L Chips) 13 stmt announced recently the fofmation of a atizens commission to analyze and resist the regressive actions taken by the I Reagan administration ; and the Congress in the area of civil rights. , The Commission, in cluding four former cabinet members, Republicans and Democrats, and six former members of the U.S. Civil Rights Com mission contends that the administration and the Congress have a defined strategy to do everything possible to weaken or eliminate methods needed to im-i dement laws and courti decisions. Fleming stated that thd initial effort of the com-j mission would, be, directed toward a review of the legislation recently ' passed by the Senate that would preclude the Federal courts from ordering busing to bring about desegregation. He further indicated that future consideration would be devoted to the administration's cut backs in school aid, the Labor Department's restrictions on affir mative action in hiring minorities for govern ment contract work, and moves to allow segregated schools to re- tain tax exempt status and the increased use of riders to legislation as a 'threat to civil rights. v Fleming also stated that "Taken collectively, these and other actions threaten to close dobrs of opportunity only recently opened to sow the seeds of renewed conflict and rend the social fabric." . The formation of the Citizens Commission on Civil Rights should not be viewed as critical of the present Civil Rights Commission but would complement : the watch dog activities of that , agency as noted by Fleming. had threatened penalties against soccer - players who 'participated. Two Argentinian World Cup players, Osvaldo Ardiles and " Mario Kempes withdrew from the tour, after arriving in .South Africa: ' And - ) three' leading teams from the j black . township of Soweto, .the Orlando Pirates, the Kaiser .1 Chiefs aothe Moroka '! Swallows, refused to play the, visiting team. -According to the black newspaper, the Voice, the teams issued a state ment deploring "the -morals of these marauding mercenaries for allowing themselves to be bribed into trying to put South Africa back ... into world soccer . through the back door." ; A back door tour to the U.S. by the South African. '. Springbok wrestling team in June "and July was less event ful, having avoided ad vance publicity - thai might have led to pro tests such as those against the Springbok rugby . team tour last September. The 33-man delegation, which includ ed 14 wrestlers (10 white and 4 black), 18 coaches and a journalist, spent half their tour in rural Oregon, with shorter, visits to California, Oklahoma and New York. The tour was organiz ed by two cenfral Oregon high school coaches, prompted by Dale Thomas, wrestling cdach at Oregon State Univer sity, a leading promotor of U.S. sports: ties with South' Africa. On the Oregon tour, the black t wrestlers all of whoniil are employed oy the met the local press cm 4 f several occasions.' One, - f , 26-year-old Elias MnLsij; stressed that "as far as sports are , concerned., ' ; you can . forget about-, ; apartheid. ; The slow .i : pace of change Iti South -Africa, he said was" mainly due to blacks, who have not : yet ac-. cepted that "there has to : be a sound relationship between the white man and the black man. An Oregon team of local wrestlers left in mid-July for a return tour to South Africa. 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