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Workers Press no. 671, 25 January 1972 · scan page 2

Topics: Africa, Students and youth, Police and the courts

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RULING-CLASS circles are gripped with uncertainty and divisions over the Rhodesia crisis being fuelled by the presence of the Pearce Commission.

These circles fear that lan Smith's racialist regime is pursuing a course which throws away any chance of political stability.

Rhodesia's ' leading news mention Pearce said comall the it their continued presence e white for ards the desired ms west Smith snapped back that any postponement the Commission's would mean appeasement and weakness.

This position drew support at the weekend from right-wing Labourite Denis Healey, who agreed there was no case for recalling Pearce.

Yesterday the anti-settlement African National CounSMITH: THROWS CHANCES?

cil (ANC) claimed that 100 of its supporters had been arrested during last week.

The mooted arrest of ANC leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa could greatly escalate African resistance.

Already police have killed 15 Africans demonstrating their opposition to the SmithHome settlement terms.

Undeterred by this carnage, a Commission spokesman said: "The violence that has been witnessed in Rhodesia in the last week has not added up to disruption of the Commission's work!

But yesterday's 'Daily Telegraph' was worried:

"The Pearce Commission is having a hard time trying to detect the true, underlying mood of the African population, Rhodesian In fact the Commission has been unable to find any breach in the unanimous African opposition indefinite white minority rule. MADRID students were attacked by helmeted police wielding long riot sticks yesterday after being asked to leave the university.

Throughout the rest of the campus police on horseback and in jeeps were out in force. At the university medical school-the scene of bitter clashes last week after a decision by the dean to suspend 4,000 students—students left quietly when police arrived.