Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bursts of martial music, the Kinshasa radio claimed that forces loyal to Mobutu had recaptured Kisangani and Bukuva. Europeans fleeing from Bukuva into neighboring Rwanda told of looting and grisly retaliations against the remaining whites by Mobutu's troops. A planeload of bruised and battered mercenaries landed in Rhodesia...
Earlier this month, Rhodesia's 3,000 tobacco farmers, who have been the staunchest supporters of the white supremacist regime, heard their government's dictated solution. Next year's harvest must be cut by 34%, which means that some 600 of the country's farmers will either have to grow other commodities or get out of the business...
Last week, only a few days after Rhodesia announced its crop crisis, Britain sent an emissary to see if the Ian Smith regime was ready to talk. London's Financial Times was not optimistic: "Recent events must have confirmed the white Rhodesians in their view that the British balance of payments is in a worse state than their own, and that it is from the British side that concessions are likely to come first." Nevertheless, Britain's policy appears to have dour long-range implications for the Rhodesian economy. Because of sanctions, general exports from Rhodesia...
...outward appearances, Rhodesia has remained unperturbed by six months of United Nations economic sanctions. The bustling capital of Salisbury is alive with fashion-conscious white shoppers. As before, parking is a problem. Car owners have had ample supplies of fuel furnished by the kindred regime of South Africa. And new factories, created since the crisis to take up the slack in imports, are producing more of everything from ballpoint pens to refrigerators. Now, however, a government announcement indicates that Rhodesia has, in fact, some very real troubles...
...deterrent whatever to Smith's white-supremacist policies. With the nearly unanimous backing of his fellow whites, his government is in the process of writing a new constitution that is expected to reduce the importance of or even eliminate the 15 Deputies now elected to Parliament by Rhodesia's blacks. Smith is also promoting a "Community Development Program," under which taxes paid by whites will go to the development of the white community, and taxes paid by blacks-whose earning power is onetenth that of the whites-will be spent to develop black communities. Education...