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With those words Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith last week told his countrymen in a grave 20-minute television address that the Rhodesian "rebellion" was at an end. Nearly eleven years after his government had declared its independence from British rule and its determination to maintain white minority rule in the landlocked territory. Smith and his colleagues capitulated. On behalf of their 275,000 white countrymen, they agreed to a British-American plan to transfer power to Rhodesia's 6 million blacks within the next two years. The Western powers, Smith said calmly, "have made up their...
...pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati ...The iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburgh ... They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
...country's 18 million blacks, 2.3 million coloreds and 750,000 Asians would suddenly rise up against the 4.2 million whites. The whites, however, have deeply been shaken by the current violence and the realization that Africa's white bastion has at last become a theater of grave danger...
...plight of the large cities. The outbreak in Detroit-a chilling reminder of the violent riots that resulted in 43 deaths and more than $100 million in damage there in 1967-should signal to both candidates that the cities' cries for help can go unheeded only at grave risk. Aside from America's mayors, however, most politicians seem blithely willing to take that risk. Michigan's Republican Governor William Milliken, for example, is pressing for a federally financed "Marshall Plan for the cities." But Milliken is simultaneously opposing efforts in federal courts to force the state...
...defenders were hardly able to resist. Said one of the last radio messages from inside the camp: "We are without water. We are close to the breaking point. Three thousand people are seriously wounded or dying of hunger. Every empty plot of ground is the site of a grave...