In Rhodesia, a second major party in the country's transitional government has launched its campaign for one-man, one-vote elections in April this year. But the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole -- who is the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union, or ZANU -- attracted a relatively small crowd of supporters at a rally cn Sunday (11 February). ZANU officials blamed the disappointing turn-out on Widespread intimidation by the United disappointing turn-out on Widespread intimidation by the United African National Council, or UNAC, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa.

SYNOPSIS: Chanting supporters greeted the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole when he arrived to address Sunday's meeting.

ZANU party officials originally expected a hundred thousand people to attend the Salisbury meeting. But police estimated that the crowd was, at most, only five thousand strong.

A week earlier, Reverend Sithole's rival in the transitional government, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, held a rally at the same venue. Then, the crowd was estimated at a hundred and twenty thousand. The Reverend Sithole appealed to guerrillas -- presently waging a war against the transitional government -- to return to rhodesia.