The World - News from July 16, 1985
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s prime minister, dismissed the most prominent white member of his Cabinet, Agriculture Minister Denis Norman, but retained all his other ministers. Mugabe, whose ruling party won a landslide victory two weeks ago, said he decided not to reappoint Norman because the country’s 100,000 whites backed the party of former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith in a separate poll for 20 seats reserved for them in Parliament.
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