The World : Ian Smith Wins New Term
Zimbabwe’s white minority, voting in larger-than-expected numbers, returned longtime leader Ian Smith to Parliament. Smith, 66, won a seat from the southwestern city of Bulawayo for his Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe by a more than 2-1 margin over the candidate of the Independent Zimbabwe Group. With six results announced in voting for 20 seats constitutionally reserved for whites in the 100-member House of Assembly, Smith’s party had won 3, the Independent Zimbabwe Group two and an independent candidate, Chris Anderson, one of two whites in Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s Cabinet, the other.
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