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...Federation-whose two black-ruled regions last year broke away to win separate nationhood-Rhodesia's white supremacist leaders have looked with longing to Verwoerd's apartheid state for support, now threaten to declare, unilaterally, their independence from Britain. To try to head them off, Wilson dispatched Commonwealth Relations Secretary Arthur Bottomley in search of common ground between Rhodesia's two varieties of freedom-loving people -the European minority, which wants freedom under white rule, and the overwhelming African majority, which wants it under black...
...despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, joined forces with an embarrassed Labor government in a Windsor-like sequence of events that ultimately stripped Seretse of his chieftainship and forced him into a six-year British exile. Much of the pressure from the Labor side was exerted by then Commonwealth Relations Secretary Patrick Gordon-Walker, who was twice beaten for Parliament within the last year, partly on the color issue...
...Cambridge Civic Association will discuss the City's poverty problem at its annual meeting Tuesday night at the Hotel Continental. William vanden Heuvel, New England area Director of the Community Action program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and John C. Cort, executive director of the Commonwealth Service Crops, will speak. The 3 p.m. meeting is open to the public free of charge...
...belief, the county penal institutions had the hard-earned distinction of being one of the most embarrassing aspects of Massachusetts. In what was thought to be a genuine attempt to correct this situation, Governor Volpe convened a special commission consisting of eleven of the most respected men in the Commonwealth to study the county system of correction...
...Fourth, the Department of Correction has lost a man, only 40 years old, whose very presence gave stature to at least one corner of Massachusetts government, and stature is a commodity that the Commonwealth needs more...