Pat Bashford

"... majority required to amend the constitution. The party is ultraconservative but Smith and his associates are able to campaign as To left is the Centre party headed by farmer Pat Bashford. It is contesting 16 white seats and eight black constituencies. The Centre party rejects "both the implicit racialism of majority rule and the hypocrisy of separate development." ln southern Africa ..."

"... both the domestic and militant their presence ln Zimbabwe external factions of thc ANC. tthe nationalists name for Rho- Gordon secre- said. Smith's ministerial appointments were also condemned by Pat Bashford, president of thc Housing bill cleared by Senate WASHINGTON (AP) A veto threat looms over a $4 38- billion housing bill thal is awaiting House action following passage in the ..."

"... by race it would take the Africans 980 years to reach parity with the whites. The "only organized opposition to smith's Rhodesian Front ls the Center party, headed by Pat Bashford, an outspoken tobacco farmer who says: "The only solution in this multiracial country must be on the basis of meritocracy, qualified democracy." Bashford's party won seven of the eight urban seats for Africans contested. “The 240.000 Europeans can't carry 5 million Africans,” says Bashford. we've got to get these people into the thing. We need assistance and we need sympathy to cope with this problem of population. They must have hope." NOTICE: IMMEDIATE SW ..."

"... of thc people." Earlier at an open meeting, the multiracial opposition Center party told Lord Pearce and his deputy chairmen they accepted the terms but with reluctance. Party leader Pat Bashford accepted the terms because he sald they were the "only hope". If the terms were rejected “There would certainly bc an ultimate explosion..." Hc added that the Africans had no ..."