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Secrets Khama, president of Botswana, will recieve an honorary degree at the Commencement exercises tomorrow, an official in the Botswana Embassy said yesterday...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Botswana President To Receive Degree | 6/7/1978 | See Source »

...internal settlement has been criticized both at the U.N., where it was condemned by the Security Council, and in Britain, the U.S. and the so-called frontline states of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana and Angola. The principal reason: its failure to include the leaders of the Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, whose Soviet-and Cuban-backed guerrillas, poised along the Rhodesian border, are now believed to number 12,000. The fear is that Smith's limited solution will not lead to peaceful black rule but to a black-against-black civil war among the rival political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Wedding Day in Salisbury | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...made a dramatic escape to the tiny, mountainous state of Lesotho. There he was reunited with his wife Wendy and their five children, who had driven from the family home in East London to meet him. After that came a tense, two-hour flight over South African territory to Botswana, then another to Zambia and on to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Critic in Exile | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...lesser, loss of trade. But dozens of smaller countries closer to South Africa would also be affected. Gabon, for instance, buys meat from South Africa; Zambia buys everything from mining equipment to canned goods. Alternative markets are distant-and thus more expensive. At least four U.N. members -Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique-are heavily dependent on neighboring South Africa not only for trade but for communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Loneliness Is an Enemy | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen flew into Zambia late last week to begin a selling job on the peace plan. After a meeting in the capital of Lusaka with representatives of the five front-line states (Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana), as well as with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, leaders of the nationalists' Patriotic Front, Young and Owen were scheduled to continue to Pretoria. The proposals will be presented this week to South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster and Smith himself. The plan provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Decision Time | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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