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THE AGE, Friday 2 May 1980 WORLD NEWS US casts veto i Whites leave Zimbabwe in hundreds Muskie bid to keep Vance team idEast OB Mr Christopher: pressure Mr Mugabe: conciliatory SALISBURY, 1 May. Several hundred senior white army officers, civil servants and policemen have served notice that they will soon leave Zimbabwe because of the rise to power of the Prime Minister, Mr Mugabe, informed sources said From OSWALD JOHNSTON WASHINGTON, 1 May. Mr Warren Christopher intends to remain at the State Department as long as the new Secretary, Mr Muskie, needs him, according to department officials. No State for Palestinians to affirmative votes on the question. The American Ambassador.

Mr McHenry, explaining his country's 22nd Security Council veto, said the issue at hand was of such importance for the world and for the Palestinian and Israeli people that the council should not be distracted by approaches that offered no prospect for making practical progress. "The Palestinian dimension is one of the crucial issues which must be resolved in the context of working towards a comprehensive settlement," he said. If negotiations now under way following the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt were successful, Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza would have a real opportunity to manage their own lives for the first time in modern history, he said. He said he was aware of scepticism in many quarters about the prospects of success for Middle East negotiations under the Camp David framework. 'The road will be difficult.

But together with Israel and Egypt, we ask only that we be judged on the results we obtain." he said. Mr. Terzi described the vote as a glorious result" with the US "isolated as a minoritv of AAP-Reuter. NEW YORK, 1 May. The US last night vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution affirming a right to statehood for the Palestinians.

The resolution also called for Israel's withdrawal from all Arab territories, "including Ten other members voted in favor. Britain, France, Norway and Portugal abstained. Angry over; the result, the Palestine Liberation Organisation's UN observer, Mr Zehdi Terzi, told reporters that a special session of General Assembly would be-summoned. But Western European delegates were known to be urging that any such move -be deferred until after next month's Venice summit meeting of the European Economic Community which will discuss the Palestinian question. Under a resolution adopted in November by the General Assembly, the UN Committee of Palestinian Rights may decide what course to pursue.

Non-aligned States, which form the majority of the UN, decided at their Havana summit meeting in September that, in the event of a US veto, a special session of the assembly should be convened. But the Third He may then return to his law practice in Los Angeles. Mr Christopher, the Acting Secretary of State during the interim period until Mr Muskie's confirmation vote, was former Secretary of State Mr Cyrus Vance's personal choice to succeed him and was regarded by depeartment officials as the most likely nominee when the surprise choice of Mr Muskie, the senior Democratic Senator from Maine, was announced on Tuesday. Other officials said yesterday they Mr Muskie would keep as much, of' Mr Vance's senior staff in place as he could for the time being. MfXhristopher, in particular, is reported to be "under heavy pressure to stay on" as deputy secretary from President.

Carter. Sources said that Mr Muskie's staff had begun calling Mr Vance's senior aides to ask them to stay. "It could be a long transition," an aide to Mr Christopher said. "He wants to do everything he can do to help out. But he will urge the new secretary to pick his own man as deputy once things settle down." Even officials closely identified with Mr Vance, such as his special adviser on Soviet affairs, Mr Marshal Shulman, are expected to remain through the transition period.

Since Mr Muskie, under the press of Budget Committee business in the Senate, is certain not to be in a position to take over for at least two weeks, changes are unlikely to take place at all until mid-May at the earliest. Mr Shulman, for instance, intends to reutrn to Columbia University in autumn and would like to leave the department by early summer, but he may find himself staying on a few weeks longer. Mr Christopher supported Mr Muskie in his presidential bid in 1972. Never-. theless, one official observed: "It usually is the worst thing possible to have two people contend for a job and have the loser stay around too long afterward." Mr Vance left his seventh-floor office at the State Department yesterday afternoon and paused briefly to say farewell to rank-and-file foreign service officers and staff.

He had met several times since his resignation more senior officials and had held an open house for them in his office earlier in the afternoon. Los Angeles Times. word "comrade' 'instead of 'mister" on radio and television news have fuelled white fears that Mr Mugabe's spirit of moderation will not last. A year ago, hundreds of whites in the army and civil service were persuaded to stay on under the bishop, whose bi-racial Government offered them substantial cash bonuses at the end of special one-year contracts. There has been no indication so far, however, of a mass exodus by whites.

The 5200 farmers whose produce is the single biggest foreign exchange earner, are apparently staying put, adopting a ''wait-and-see" attitude, Government sources said. But at some of the country's important mines white technicians have said they are seeking employment elsevnere, Mr Mugabe liaj gone out cf his way to assure wnites that tfey have a secure future in Zimbabwe, seeking to avert a white exodus that would cripple the economy. AAP-Reuter Many would be leaving their jobs last night at the expiry of 12-month incentive contracts given a year ago to encourage them to stay on under Mugabe's predecessor, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the sources said. In the police force, up to 360 white officers have said they will leave, along with about 200 civil servants and an unknown number of. career army officers, the sources said.

Many of them are heading for South Africa. Despite Mr. Mugabe's conciliatory stance since his victory in last February's general elections, many of the 200,000 whites in Zimbabwe have remained apprehensive about their future. Films lauding the. Patriotic Front guerillas against whom they fought for seven years have provoked a howl of protest among whites, who have cited the documentaries as evidence of an alleged anti-white bias.

Changes such as the use of the World leaders left the timing of it open. The PLO observer said there would definitely be a special assembly session, but he declined to say when. Some diplomatic observers said PLO and its supporters might agree to await the outcome of the Venice talks which follows the expiration of the 26 target date for completion of the stalled Egyptian-Israeli-US talks on Palestinian autonomy, under the Camp David accords. The delegates of both Britain and France, explaining their abstentions in last night's vote, pointed to the timing of the resolution and referred to the forthcoming Venice meeting. Several diplomats said privately they were at a loss to explain why the PLO had pressed for couucil action at this stage, knowing there was a possibility the Western Europeans might be prepared in a couple of months to switch from their abstentions China reveals pecking order From WILLIAM SEXTON PEKING, 1 May.

China watchers have been given the first official confirmation of the pecking order of the triumvirate named recently to replace China's ageing top leadership. into the Security Council chamber. The two delegates were awaiting the start of the council debate on the Palestine question. The attackers, not immediately identified, shouted: "Down with American imperialism," "Down with American-Soviet war moves," and "Our Flag is red, not red, white and blue." One cried: "Your cause is immoral long live the revolution." Guards seized both of the intruders, who appeared to be oriental, and dragged them away. Mentioning the three "relatively younger" officials during an interview here on Sunday, Vice-Premier Li Xiannian first listed Hu Yaobang, 65, followed by Zhao Ziyang, 61, and Wan Li, 64.

Hu is the Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party's newly upgraded secretariat, a veteran of the long march with Mao Tse-Tung when he was a teenager. Zhao Ziyang and Wan Li, previously provincial governors, were appointed recently to the party secretariat and became Vice-Premiers two weeks ago. Senior Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping subsequently said Zhao was directing "day-to-day work of the Cabinet. Other officials said Wan was in charge of China's crucial drive to increase production. In the view of most analysts here, Hu, a career political organiser and media expert, is next in line to Hua Guofeng for the party chairmanship, traditionally the highest office in the communist state.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Zhao Ziyang had the inside track to succeed to the Premiership, which is concurrently held by Hua, or whether he and Wan Li are competing for the post. The general opinion is that Hua Guofeng largely occupies the role of figurehead, while Deng sets the policies that are executed by Hu. Zhao and Wan Newsday. THENEWERADATSUN 280C. THE BEST JAEIN CAN OFFER.

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