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Several days later, the spokesman--named Eddison-talked about this work for the cause of African blacks against the white supremacist government in Rhodesia. From the deskchair in the study of his Cambridge apartment, he discussed the past in an almost-tired voice. In 1960, at the age of 24, he had helped found the National Democratic Party, then the most widespread effort to organize the African population against the ruling white minority. "We were a lawful party," he says, "but we operated on all levels, with a program for overthrowing the regime. We had an underground wing to carry...
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