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Rhodesian Front

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noun

  1. the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mugabe next held out the olive branch to former Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front, which had won all 20 of the white parliamentary seats in separate elections last month.

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Smith himself would continue as interim Prime Minister, but half of a new "broad-based" Cabinet would be chosen from outside his ruling Rhodesian Front Party, and two members would be blacks.

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The Rhodesian Front is expected to wind up with 35 seats, to 29 for the U.F.P.

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He took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way.

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On many issues the bish op will have the support of the Rhodesian Front, the party of outgoing Prime Minister Ian Smith, which won all of the 28 seats reserved for whites.

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