Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kamuzu Banda (he no longer calls himself Hastings-too British), an urbane onetime London general practitioner, Nyasaland is expected to quit within a year. Northern Rhodesia, whose first black government took over a fortnight ago and likes the idea of keeping the $320 million-a-year copper-mining industry all to itself, would like to follow suit. Even in Southern Rhodesia, once the most enthusiastic of the federation's three members, the newly elected white Rhodesian Front government (TIME, Dec. 21) has declared solemnly that the federation is "finished...
...Plan," a four-part program drawn up last August and designed to force Tshombe to bring his mineral-rich province back into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote to 17 nations urging them to stop buying Tshombe's exports. Many of them would shrug...
...basic procedure of etching is to coat a copper plate with wax, draw on it with a needle that exposes the metal, and immerse the plate in acid, which eats away the exposed area. After removing the wax, the artist prints the plate by coating it with ink. wiping the ink from the surface, and pressing the plate against paper that draws ink out of the etched depressions by a blotting action...
...tried using on a single plate various substances with different degrees of resistance to the acid. The acid, biting into the metal faster in one spot, more slowly in another, could produce complex and subtle effects not possible before. As the artist worked, the acid working on the copper would produce new images that as he observed them would excite his imagination...
...swing to the extremists owed much to fear of the growing power of the blacks in the other two regions of Welensky's wobbly federation. Nyasaland already has a black majority in its Executive Council and loudly declares its intention to secede. In copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, the two big black political factions have agreed to form a coalition, which assures the territory its first African government. With a white government in Southern Rhodesia ranged against him, too, Welensky's long fight to hold the federation together seems doomed. "Welensky.'' said one Rhodesian Front leader...