"Here's a program that grew up in cold war days," he said.

I thought you might know someone from your war days.

That's just kind of a little aside from the war days.

I then decided to try to recover from those dark war days.

Maybe life really was humorless in cold war days, but probably not.

A cadre of Zanu in the war days would have been more professional.

"During the cold war days we developed a theology of peacekeeping which was perceived as very successful," he said.

"In the cold war days, you knew which communications circuits to watch," he said.

One other incident of the early war days stands out in my memory.

In those cold war days, just talking was considered page one progress by the big powers.