Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banda's actions might well have resulted in the usual speeches and counter-attacks in the press, and little more, for recently Malawi has been quietly pursuing a course of cooperation with Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, and Mozambique, all of whom have avowedly racist governments. And, in fact, the announcement itself was greeted with surprisingly little reaction publicly. But it did not go unnoticed. Other African states may have been reluctant to criticize openly a former freedom fighter in his own right, who without bloodshed brought his country to independence. But privately they seem to have written off Malawi...
...heartburned. Little about the party leaders suggested that they were capable of standing up to the slogan emblazoned on the rostrum: PUT BRITAIN BACK ON HER FEET. Speaker after speaker proclaimed the merits or decried the perils of 14 tired resolutions (including calls for higher tariff barriers, negotiations with Rhodesia and "the protection of our interests overseas"), all of which were duly adopted by 4,500 Tory delegates...
...offer advice on ways to end the civil war. Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somalian diplomats took the occasion to arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands of black "freedom fighters" who seek to overthrow the regime. As for the Congo's white mercenaries, entrenched in the border town of Bukavu, the heads of state demanded that they get out of the country...
...Rhodesia, says the Sunday Times, produces six key commodities for sale abroad: tobacco, sugar, asbestos, copper, chrome and iron. According to the newspaper's careful study of world markets, Rhodesia today "is selling all the asbestos and copper she sold before, around a third of the chrome, almost half the iron ore and a third of the tobacco." Only on sugar have the sanctions worked. As a result, Rhodesia will earn some $150 million this year, selling goods in defiance of U.N. sanctions-goods that enter world markets bearing false bills of origin from other countries...
Asbestos is handled somewhat differently. Before sanctions were ordered by the U.N., the British company of Turner & Newall, which produces most of Rhodesia's asbestos, had a vision of things to come. So it prepared for future problems by setting up a South African subsidiary called Southern Asbestos. Although the mineral still moves straight from Rhodesian mines to a Mozambique port without ever going through South Africa, the company simply supplies each shipment with a South African certificate of origin. Outgoing chrome is usually labeled South African as well and is bought in large quantities by the Japanese...