Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Because we would immediately be accused of provocative conduct involving a high risk of war. If we started engaging in the sort of activities in Eastern Europe that the Soviets have engaged in in Africa, first it would lead to bloody repression, and second we would be accused of fomenting the risk...
When Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Lusaka at the end of a two-week tour of Africa, she was cheered by Zambians everywhere she went as "Queenie! Queenie!" When Britain's other female leader, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, arrived in the same city for the Commonwealth Conference, she got a reception that might better have been accorded the queen of a leper colony. By week's end, however, her peers among the 41 Commonwealth leaders at the eight-day conference readily acknowledged that Mrs. Thatcher had made an important contribution toward solving an explosive issue...
...depressed condition of the country's economy is in part a result of President Kenneth Kaunda's adherence to principles: Zambia is a front-line state in the southern Africa conflict. But the embarrassing truth is that white-ruled South Africa is now Zambia's main lifeline to the world. The red carpet used to greet vips at Lusaka International Airport was made in the hated land of apartheid; many of the delicacies served at the Commonwealth banquets also came from there. For Zambia, the Tazara Railway, built by the Chinese to open up a land link...
...widespread famine, it will need 300,000 tons of corn by the end of the year. Kenya has offered 100,000 tons, but this would have to be transported-inefficiently, and perhaps tardily-by road from Kenya and then along the Tazara Railway. Thus Zambia is relying on South Africa for corn and on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to deliver the food shipments by rail...
...spot market will probably get a further upward nudge from a separate Nigerian action, the abrupt nationalization last week of British Petroleum's exploration, marketing and production operations. The Lagos government declared that it was punishing BP for supplying oil to South Africa in violation of a Nigerian boycott, a charge that the company denies. The takeover deprives BP of an estimated 300,000 bbl. per day, but the Nigerian government is offering to sell the crude to any taker on the spot market, presumably including...