Word: africans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come to be called NIBMAR- No Independence Before Majority African Rule. Given Smith's position of strength, that pledge is hollow, but it is nonetheless difficult to renege...
Aboard the Fearless, Wilson hinted that if Smith could guarantee the principle of "unimpeded progress toward majority African rule," other matters might be negotiated, such as an extended timetable for giving Africans a larger say in ruling Rhodesia. Wilson has also maintained all along that any new constitution must be acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program...
...means of passing on Taiwan's own experiences in climbing from underdevelopment to economic independence, but also as an instrument to fight Communism. "Peking makes its pitch to governments amid polemics and promises that somehow never quite seem to turn out," says Yin Wei-Hang, director for African affairs at the Foreign Ministry in Taipei. "We go through the governments to the people. We go down in the mud with them. Of course, it improves government-to-government relations too, and we can hardly object...
...Ivory Coast, Nationalist Chinese experts are helping African farmers boost rice production. In Ethiopia and Chad, Chinese veterinarians are advising farmers. In Rwanda, local artisans are using techniques taught them by Chinese jade and ivory carvers. And in South Viet Nam, clerks from Taipei's efficient post office are trying to unsnarl the postal and communications snafus of the war-torn country...
...little fear into the other side," he says. Last April, McGuire helped to ferry Col. "Black Jack" Schramme's white mercenaries out of the Congo to Rwanda, and he says that even the mercenaries, by some accounts the most unpleasant white men around, felt a little bitterness at the African fighting style. "They (the mercenaries) feel that they're getting paid to kill a man. Okay, that's their business, so they'll kill him, but they won't tease him first; cut him into little pieces first...