Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure of the independence negotiations between Britain and Rhodesia in London last week and reports coming out of that Central African country make it apparent that a unilateral declaration of independence by Rhodesia's white minority government can be expected almost any day. In the small hours of the morning, police and army units will close off the crowded African suburbs surrounding the capital of Salisbury, a state of preventive emergency will be declared, and Britain's Governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, will be placed under house arrest. What follows--in a land where black Africans outnumber whites...
Since sanctions, then, seem an inadequate threat for Rhodesia and a dismal prospect for all of Central Africa, what policy remains to prevent the solidification of another racist state in Southern Africa? The only possible action which could ward off Rhodesia's declaration of independence an immediate and forceful threat of military intervention. It is unrealistic, however, to expect Britain, whose Conservative Party is split over whether or not to go through with the application of sanctions, to take such decisive action on its own. It is necessary that the initiative come first from the United Nations, and that...
...South Viet Nam's land and 55% of its people in thrall. Saigon's armies were bone weary and bleeding from defections. As the momentum of their monsoon offensive gathered, the Communists seemed about to cut the nation in half with a vicious chop across the Central Highlands. The enemy was ready to move in for the kill, and South Viet Nam was near collapse...
...late August the advance party was on the job: preparing near An Khe deep in the Viet Cong-infested Central Highlands a giant helipad for the First Team's covey of copters. The division's assistant commander, Brigadier General John M. Wright, took machete in hand to show his men how to do it, chopping away the scrub without disturbing the grass, so as to avoid dust storms as the choppers rotated in and out. Today the First Team's garrison at An Khe is the largest concentration of fighting men and machinery in Southeast Asia since...
...last January only 65,000 tons of military equipment were fed into the nation by sea; during November more than 750,000 tons will arrive-a tenfold increase. Eventually, Cam Ranh's facilities will be able to store 45 days' supply for all the U.S. forces in Central Viet Nam. As much as any single installation in Viet Nam, Cam Ranh is concrete and steel testimony that the U.S. is in Southeast Asia to stay...