Nkomo on secret visit to London?
NZPA-Reuter London The Patriotic Front guerrilla leader, Joshua Nkomo, is reported to have slipped into London under an assumed name more than two weeks before the constitutional conference on the future of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Airline staff at Heathrow Airport in London said they had recognised Mr Nkomo arriving on a scheduled flight, from Nairobi. His name was not on the passenger list. A Foreign Office spokesman could not confirm the report. He said Mr Nkomo often visited Britain privately. There were no arrangements for Mr Nkomo to
meet British officials, he added. On August 23 Mr Nkomo began a three-day visit to Kenya including talks with President Daniel Arap Moi. The Kenya News Agency reported on Sunday that he had left Nairobi for the nonaligned summit meeting in Cuba. The constitutional conference on Britain’s breakaway colony will begin on September 10. In Salisbury, the United African National Council led by the Prime Minister (Bishop Abel Muzorewa) has endorsed the composition of his delegation for settlement talks in London next month. The delegation includes the former Prime Minister (Milan Smith),
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