The World - News from July 1, 1985

Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said that if reelected, he will abolish the 20 seats in Parliament reserved for whites. Addressing a final rally before the southern African nation’s black majority begins two days of voting today, Mugabe responded to the reelection last week of former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, a white secessionist, in the strongest terms he has used on the subject of white representation. “We have never accepted that only 32,000 voters can be entitled to 20 seats in Parliament,” he said. “We will not live with that indignity for much longer.”