Three American Observers at the forthcoming elections and a journalist accompanying them were detained and interrogated by Rhodesian security forces in a tribal area outside Salisbury. The observers, who arrived in Rhodesia just last week, include George A. Houser, executive director of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), Tilden LeMelle, professor at Hunter College in New York and ACOA treasurer, and Cynthia Cannady, an attorney from Washington, D.C. representing TransAfrica, a black American lobbying organization. The journalist with them is Michael Shuster, an editor of Southern Africa and reporter for Pacifica Radio.
