Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhodesia's Ian Smith, who has kept his nation unflinchingly stable throughout this turbulent year...
Both had good reason to try to settle their differences. Wilson, under Commonwealth pressure, had promised to ask the U.N. for mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia unless the rebel regime came to terms. Such sanctions would hurt the Smith regime, perhaps even to the point of causing a white exodus from Rhodesia. But they could also bring Britain into direct confrontation with South Africa, its fourth largest customer, which announced that it would support Rhodesia to the hilt...
...opinion of many economists, force Britain finally to devalue the pound. Even so, Wilson promised Parliament before he left that he would not give in on the essential British demands: that Smith's white supremacist government return to British rule and prepare the way for eventual government by Rhodesia's black majority...
Changed Tune. The sudden meeting was brought on by an indication from Smith that his regime was at last prepared to consider giving the Africans a start toward self-government. After years of proclaiming that "never in my lifetime" would Rhodesia be ruled by blacks, Smith last week changed his tune. It was really only a matter of timing, he told a press conference in Salisbury. And, to a British representative the following night, he submitted a plan for a "braking mechanism" that would keep Rhodesia white for five years, then, presumably, turn it slowly over to the Africans...
...year has ranged from 98? to 44? per lb. Basically, Chile and Zambia want to reduce their vulnerability to copper's wild price fluctuations. The swings have been made especially violent by demand and supply uncertainties resulting from strikes and, not least, the tension between Zambia itself and Rhodesia, which has virtually cut off Zambia's access to the sea. Similar price agreements have been made-and broken-before. Chile and Zambia have gone a step further, with plans for mutual trade programs and other economic ties...