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...some 40,000 gallons of gasoline daily, nearly one-third of Rhodesia's rationed needs. The petroleum is being sold to Rhodesia by independent South African oil companies, which have been emboldened by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's decision not to abide by Britain's oil embargo. The trucks were seized by Smith from British Petroleum and Shell subsidiaries in Rhodesia, repainted grey and blue or yellow and black. With white Rhodesians at the wheels, the trucks are driven to secret loading points in South Africa, filled, and then raced back to Rhodesia. Emblazoned with slogans (samples...
There is only one certainty about economic blockades: they bring out blockade busters. Britain's embargo on oil to Rhodesia is a case in point: it simply does not work. The reason, Britain charged last week, is that South Africa, despite strong British protests, is shuttling enough fuel into Rhodesia to keep the country running indefinitely. Rhodesians know how frustrated Britain feels...
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith is not now preparing to renounce his UDI government and admit defeat. All mutual trade has been cancelled by Britain, and Rhodesia will be crippled by the embargo on petroleum when her ten weeks' supply runs out. But the consensus of the white populace is not yet for submission. Rumore of growing opposition to the Smith regime and of the formation of shadow cabinets are exaggerated. The Minister of Law and Order has received extra-constitutional powers from Smith to hold anyone suspected of such treason in prison indefinitely without trial. And the Rhodesian government...
Smith's performance last week was in aid of gas rationing, which Britain's oil embargo had at last forced on his white minority government. With crude oil running out at the Mozambique port of Beira (source for Rhodesia's major pipeline), Smith announced that drivers would henceforth get only three to five gallons of gas per week, according to the size of their cars. His own black Wolseley went into the garage. The worst is yet to come: by the end of the month, ration coupons will replace the "honor system," which last week allowed hundreds...
...sooner had British Prime Minister Harold Wilson called for a worldwide oil embargo against Rhodesia than Smith retaliated by cutting off all petroleum shipments to his black-ruled northern neighbor. The effect in Zambia was immediate. Gas stations closed. Cars coughed to a stop and were abandoned. A stringent emergency rationing system allowed each car owner less than a gallon a week. To conserve fuel, government offices eliminated the lunch hour, sent their auto-driving employees home in the middle of the afternoon instead...