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While still in prison, Eddison received a law degree through correspondence with the University of London. Upon his release in 1971 and after extended pleas to the government, he became one of seven black Rhodesian lawyers in a profession numbering...
After months of this treatment, Eddison fled the country and eventually made his way to the United States. He is now working on his dissertation at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...
...Eddison has vivid memories of the struggle of the Rhodesian guerrilla forces. They fought their first battle with the regime in 1966, and in the next three years there was widespread fighting across northern Rhodesia. After a several-year lag in the fighting, the liberation troops resumed the offensive, directing their efforts primarily against white farmers and forcing many of them to abandon their farms and move to the cities...
...Eddison, the cause of the United States boycott is very important. After the U.N. imposed sanctions and before Congress passed the Byrd Amendment, he says, Rhodesia suffered both economically and psychologically from the world blockade. Foreign reserves dwindled, and the white regime felt isolated, unrecognized by every nation in the world. The Byrd Amendment had two beneficial effects for the Smith Government: It bolstered the Rhodesian economy by providing millions of dollars in foreign reserves, and it demonstrated that the Nixon Administration was sympathetic to the white cause...
...effort to show solidarity with the 14 million Zimbawbe people. Insofar as the longshoremen did unload the Rhodesian asbestos, the action was unsuccessful. But as one organizer pointed out, the protest had a broader purpose: to show support for a people who live in a state of virtual servitude. Eddison told the demonstrators: "It is very good to see some people who don't want racism to survive in Africa appear at six in the morning to be counted...