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Pusey's talk followed a welcome from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Governor Volpe, the first of five speakers to greet the audience of 4000 after the Chief Marshall, with red robes and a five-foot high golden mace, had declared, "The ceremony is convened...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts will build the $4.3 million plant directly adjacent to the Boston University Bridge. A $1 million Federal demonstration grant will aid in the financing of the project...
Admittedly, it was a problem that put the leaders of the Commonwealth's 23 nations in a curious position, for to most of them anti-colonialism is still a fighting cause. But Rhodesia is different...
...Most Commonwealth leaders had come to London hoping to force Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Wilson to send troops to invade Rhodesia - or at the very least call for a full-scale eco nomic and diplomatic blockade (such as the U.N. unsuccessfully tried against Franco's Spain after World...
...iron, chrome and asbestos? The Commonwealth was not impressed. Nor were the members pacified when Wilson upped the ante to include a mandatory oil blockade; after all, one mandatory oil blockade was supposedly already in force, but Rhodesia had somehow always managed to get plenty of oil. In the end, there was not much the Commonwealth could do about it. Before they went home, however, the leaders of 16 former British possessions in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean broke ranks with Wilson, made use of the official conference communique-traditionally a bland document saying nothing-to register their disagreement...