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Rhodesia's interests are even more vital. Rhodesia is entirely landlocked--and virtually all of its exports and imports go through the Mozambican port of Beira. With Mozambique in black hands, and more than likely to exclude white-supremacist governments from the use of its resources, Rhodesia would have to ship all of its exports and imports overland through South Africa before getting to a port--the trip would be five times as long...
Both landlocked countries, Zambia and Rhodesia were forced into an uneasy cohabitation by economic necessity. Zambia needed Rhodesia to transport half of its copper to the Indian Ocean port of Beira in Mozambique for shipment to world markets; Rhodesia needed the $25 million a year that the copper shipments brought its railroad in transit revenue. The arrangement-a triumph of pragmatism over politics-has now been scuttled by a series of guerrilla attacks by exiled black Rhodesian rebels who operate under an umbrella organization called FROLIZI (Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe-the African term for Rhodesia). After a particularly...
Stolen Sample. Much of the exporting begins by rail. Shipments go to friendly Portuguese Mozambique and its port of Beira. Since the rail lines from Malawi also run to Beira, outgoing Rhodesian goods are simply provided with Malawian or Mozambican certificates of origin before being loaded aboard ship. To show how brazen the practice getting around the U.N. rules has become, the Sunday Times reprints a Mozambique certification for 4,500 Ibs. of corned beef-a profitable product that the Portuguese colony does not manufacture...
Slowly, the British were making their point that shipping oil to Rhodesia is a risky operation. Serving notice that Britain meant to use its U.N.-granted powers, the British frigate Berwick had intercepted the Manuela 150 miles from Beira and diverted it to Durban. Though Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has repeatedly vowed that he would not honor the British embargo, he had some second thoughts about permitting the Manuela to unload its oil for transshipment overland to Rhodesia-a highly expensive method for the Rhodesians but better than nothing. South Africa finally promised Britain that it would ban the Manuela...
...Back in Beira the Ioanna V, which had switched from Greek to Panamanian registration in mid-voyage, was boarded by the Panamanian consul, who informed the captain that the ship's Panamanian registration had been withdrawn, leaving the Ioanna V a ship without a country. Later, the Beira port captain placed the tanker and its 18,000 tons of oil under Portuguese control, which could mean that either Portugal was honoring the embargo by impounding the ship or simply making it easier to unload the oil. Whichever the case, the British intend to see to it that the Ioanna...