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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Rhodesian economists estimate that about $2 billion could flow into the country within 13 months after the final lifting of sanctions. Local whites are now talking less of emigrating and more of enjoying the benefits of the anticipated economic boom. They are raising the prices of their elegant colonial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: It Seems Like a Miracle | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Much of Rhodesia's economic future will depend on the political regime that emerges from the elections. With the whites assured of 20 seats, the crucial struggle will take place among the seven or so black factions vying for the remaining 80 seats. These parties are so deeply divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: It Seems Like a Miracle | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

The cover-up seems to have gone amazingly far. Lord Home, Tory Prime Minister in 1964, insisted he had never been told about Blunt's confession, prompting some Laborites to ask whether the intelligence services had kept the official government in the dark. If so it presumably was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Tinker, Tailor, Curator, Spy | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Since March, between 30 and 40 dissidents have been arrested in a rather clumsy campaign by Chinese security officials to crack down on a small but vocal free speech movement that was encouraged inadvertently by Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. A year ago, Deng declared: "If the masses feel some anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: We Cannot Be Softhearted | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Shortly before midnight on Nov. 10, tankers on a 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train, bound from Windsor to Toronto, jumped the tracks. Three explosions from cars carrying propane sent flames that towered into the sky and rattled windows 30 miles away. Firemen at the scene sniffed acrid fumes leaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fear of a Deadly Fog | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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