Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the news was out, and Southern Rhodesia was in a dither about the greatest find of emeralds in Africa since the days of the ancients who used to dig the green gems from "Cleopatra's Mines" near the shores of the Red Sea. To the ancients, emeralds were a specific against epilepsy and dysentery, an aid in childbirth, eye troubles and the preservation of chastity. To Contat and Oosthuizen, the emeralds at Belingwe may represent a fortune in excess of $20 million. They have already turned down an offer of $2,800,000 for a quarter share...
...SOUTHERN RHODESIA A Winter's Tale "When it rains in winter a king dies," goes an old African saying. Last week, in the dead of Southern Rhodesia's cool, dry winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail and rain swept across the rolling hills of light brown grass. That day citizens of Southern Rhodesia, going to the polls from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, voted Garfield Todd, their Prime Minister for five years until last February, into political oblivion. His United Rhodesia Party, upholding the zeal for racial "partnership" that earned him the name of "Kaffir lover...
...minister to Washington, who had succeeded Todd both as Prime Minister and as head of the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party. Though considered less impulsive on racial partnership than Todd, Sir Edgar, for all his moderation, barely won. Coming up fast on the right of Southern Rhodesia politics is the white supremacy Dominion Party, which until February had only four seats out of 30 in Parliament. Last week the Dominion Party actually led the popular vote...
...this year, pushing the country into an overall $95 million trade deficit. Bolivia, which gets about 80% of its export money from tungsten, lead, tin and zinc, whose prices are off as much as 30%, is in the same economic fix. So are such metal-producing African exporters as Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, whose exports of nonferrous metals were hit by a 9% price decline in the first quarter of 1958 alone...
Both Whitehead and his opponent of the white-supremacy Dominion Party-Jack Pain, a bluff and genial Bulawayo accountant and city council member-left no doubt that they wanted to maintain the white man's unfettered rule over the blacks, who outnumbered them 13 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead...