Word: bechuanaland
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Unlike the Peace Corps, Volunteer Teachers for Africa does not represent the American government and can work in places where political problems are delicate. This year two teachers are going to Bechuanaland; at least four will be teaching refugees from Mozambique and Rhodesia. Draft boards, however, grant deferment to V.T.A. as well as Peace Corps members; only two of fifteen members this year have been refused. V.T.A. teachers are presently training by studying Swahili and teaching English to Puerto Ricans in Boston's South...
...rights to his nation's uranium deposits. In Malawi, Prime Minister Hastings Banda is a demagogue who has banned everything except starvation, remains arrogant only because his army numbers only 800 men and is still commanded by British officers who are happy with the status quo. And, when Bechuanaland becomes independent in September, Prime Minister Seretse Khama will have the ultimate guarantee against being overthrown by a military coup: Bechuanaland will have no army...
...problem is going to get worse long before it gets better. More new non-nations are waiting impatiently in the wings; Bechuanaland, Basutoland, British Guiana and Mauritius are all due to become independent this year, and Swaziland and South Arabia will follow soon afterward. Britain's Lord Caradon recently reported to the United Nations General Assembly that 50 colonial territories still remained to be freed around the world-31 in the British Empire alone. Since, in general, the weakest and least viable colonies are the last to be turned loose, the prospect is staggering. All of them, of course...
...chronic drought that is a way of life in the Sahara and the Middle East has now descended on lands as far off as Korea and Bechuanaland. Australia is suffering its worst water shortage in half a century; the normally moist northeastern U.S. is watching its green lawns wither through the end of a dry summer while its reservoir levels drop lower and lower. And even in the areas where water remains abundant, man is fouling it with his untreated sewage and industrial wastes...
More immediate is the question of Bechuanaland's relations with its neighbors. Hemmed in on all sides by white Africa (Rhodesia on the east and apartheid-minded South Africa and its South-West Africa dependency on the south, west and north), Bechuanaland is tied economically to the nations that every true black nationalist hates. With the two other British High Commission territories of Basutoland and Swaziland, Seretse's domain is joined with South Africa in a customs union, uses South African currency, and in the past has cooperated in transportation, trade, health and general development with Dr. Hendrik...