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Committed to save Zambia's economy, Wilson ordered an airlift of oil from Dar es Salaam, and soon five R.A.F. Britannias began flying in from the Tanzania port. The U.S. and Canada announced that they would help out with an airlift of their own. The Great North Road, a part dirt, part asphalt strip that links Lusaka with the east coast at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, groaned under the heavy loads of trucks...
...landlocked Zambia normally passes through Rhodesia-and Ian Smith's first response was to embargo it in turn. Both the U.S. and Britain had expected that. The R.A.F. was already preparing to airlift supplies to Zambia, and the U.S. promised to provide supplementary aircraft. From London, Wilson's Deputy Prime Minister George Brown telephoned both Kaunda and Nyerere, who agreed to the plan...
...tried to restrain anti-Castroites from such exciting but basically pointless adventures.†The surveillance has been in creased fivefold since the Cuban refugee evacuation began last month with a rush of small boats from Florida; now that Castro has signed a "memorandum of understanding" to set up an airlift of 3,000-4,000 refugees a month, no one wants to give him any excuse to renege...
...Castro still seemed as eager to get rid of his disaffected citizens as they were to get out. Three charter boats were evacuating 2,000 refugees stranded at the port of Camarioca since the small-boat exodus was cut off three weeks ago, and the word was that the airlift would begin...
Wilson's carefully hedged assurance that there is no intention to use force against Rhodesia is well founded in hard military facts. Many military experts believe Britain would have to airlift in at least three full brigades to subdue Rhodesia's small (12,000 regulars, 46,000 reserves) but well-trained army and police. But the loyalties of Rhodesia's armed forces are in doubt. A good percentage of Rhodesian enlisted men were recruited in Britain, and more than half of the nation's officers rose through the ranks of the British army. Whether they would...