Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sullen Twins. Then there are more immediate economic worries. Smith & Co. have it in their power to isolate landlocked Zambia from its markets and to cut off electrical power in the rich Zambian copper fields around Ndola. Rhodesians control the turbines and generators of the giant Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, which forms the border between the two countries. Completed in 1960 under the now defunct Central African Federation, Kariba supplies both Zambia and Rhodesia with power, ties them together like sullen Siamese twins. For two weeks Kaunda has demanded that Britain at least send troops to "neutralize...
Instead, he offered to send a token force-a squadron of R.A.F. fighters and a battalion of the Royal Scots-to the copper belt, some 250 miles north of the dam. Kaunda accepted the air protection (Zambia has only ten military aircraft of its own), but rejected the offer of troops unless they were sent directly to the dam. Into the copper-belt center of Ndola at week's end swooped ten British Javelin jet fighters, accompanied by big-bellied Argosy and Beverley transports carrying the squadron's maintenance supplies. A brace of Britannia turboprop transports arrived...
Thus Lyndon Johnson has used the powers at his command to hold down wage increases in steel and among federal employees, to discourage U.S. in- vestments abroad, and to roll back threatened price hikes in aluminum and copper. Last week he said he would dip into Government stockpiles of wheat to keep bread prices from rising...
...dangerous sparks of all, however, were flying in Zambia, Rhodesia's black-ruled northern neighbor, where moderate President Kenneth Kaunda was under mounting pressure to do something about the Smith takeover. Powerless to act on his own, and dependent on Rhodesian railroads and power to keep his vital copper exports flowing, Kaunda found himself being pressed to accept troops from those two eager conspirators, Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, as well as military aid from Moscow and Peking. Kaunda wants no part of it. He believes there is real danger that Rhodesia could explode...
...small army back to Lusaka to avoid an accidental clash. In the rail center of Livingstone, the town's first race disturbance-a minor scuffle in which nobody was seriously hurt-caused 300 white railwaymen to strike for government protection, and the walkout crippled the nation's copper shipments. Three hundred miles to the north came the most serious incident of all: saboteurs blew up the main power line from Rhodesia, blacking out most of the copper mines...