Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, for Rhodesia last week became the first nation in history to launch itself into a world all but unanimous in its hostility. Instead of the customary cheers at the birth of a new nation, the U.N. General Assembly voted 102 to 2 to condemn it. Amid cries from African nations for military intervention, the Security Council called for a diplomatic boycott against "this illegal racist minority regime." In London, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson went before a tense House of Commons to brand the declaration as "unwarranted and unnecessary rebellion" and lay down sanctions against the Smith regime. "Heaven...
...gone himself to Salisbury, and kept up a steady barrage of proposals and notes in an effort to find some common ground. But always Smith had refused even to consider the one basic condition under which Britain would gladly have granted the independence he demanded: a guarantee of eventual African rule. He could hardly have done so, since his government is dedicated to one simple principle: the indefinite preservation of white rule...
...nighttime silence of Salisbury's downtown streets was broken only by occasional drunken cries ("Rhodesia, Rhodesia") and a few blasts of car horns. Most white Rhodesians performed their usual tasks, went home to their usual dinners and sat down to watch their usual TV programs. In the teeming African townships of Highfield and Harare, police doubled their nightly patrols, but all was quiet. The African beer halls, normally raucous with life, were gloomy and deserted...
...rebel government seemed happy enough. Before their first independence Cabinet meeting, Smith and his ministers met on the steps of the Milton Building, slapped each other merrily on the back, traded jokes and snapped pictures of each other. When someone handed Smith half a bottle of South African champagne, he accepted it gratefully. "Now we are launched," he said...
...future defense posture, the 62,000-man Army of the Rhine must be maintained. Not only does it fill Britain's NATO ground commitment and give London a foothold in continental Europe, but also serves as a kind of strategic reserve which Britain uses to shuttle forces into African and Middle Eastern trouble, spots. The foreign exchange costs are high ($504 million a year), but the West Germans during the past year have come a long way toward offsetting those costs, and the British facilities in Germany would be extremely costly to duplicate elsewhere. Other bases to be maintained...