Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa. Protected by the rigid enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20,000 have been counted in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Rhodesia. In Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the pachyderms are packed in at a density of between five and 40 elephants per square mile...
...question still remains: Will there be majority or minority rule in Southern Rhodesia? Britain is committed to eventual rule by the country's black majority. But the British have been worried that unless they can induce Smith to negotiate on the issue, they will have to forget about the idea or back it up with force...
...Smith as yet is probably not about to yield even that little to the British demands. Though economic sanctions have undoubtedly slowed down the economy, and at least 2,000 white Rhodesians have trekked across the border into South Africa, substantial aid from South Africa has kept Rhodesia afloat...
...clear that in order for U.N. economic sanctions to be effective, South African trade with Rhodesia will have to be stopped. If the Vorster government proves recalcitrant, a U.N. force would have to patrol the South African coast, inspect ships, and allow through only what is deemed essential for South Africa. It might even be necessary to clamp down on railway traffic. Such a project would be frightening for Vorster to consider. A successful economic boycott of Rhodesia might convince the world community that something can be done about South Africa...
...people depend for a living; in the fifth year of drought, both cattle and men are facing starvation. As if that were not enough, black Botswana (only 4,000 of its inhabitants are white) is locked like a parched pistachio in the nutcracker of white South Africa and Rhodesia...