Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shortage will probably get worse before it gets better. Among other things, Zambia's political decision to stop shipping copper through Rhodesia creates a bottleneck that may by year's end leave 150,000 tons of Zambian copper awaiting transport. To copper producers, the great danger is that higher prices and uncertain supplies may cause copper users to switch rather than fight...
...this year to a rate of 2,344,000 tons, nearly half of the metal's world output. With Europe and Japan also using more copper, the extra demand has come too fast to be met by producers plagued by strikes in Chile and by tensions between white Rhodesia and black Zambia...
...leader of a country that needs all the friends it can get. Plagued by too many people (106 per sq. mi.) and too few natural resources, the country is scarcely self-sufficient, and survives partly on the earnings of 230,000 Malawians who migrate to South Africa, Rhodesia and Zambia for temporary jobs in mines and factories. Though independent, Malawi also counts heavily on British help. Total British aid to Malawi in the next three years will run between $25 million and $28 million a year, making Banda's tiny republic the second largest recipient of British...
Policy of Kith & Kin. The expulsion order was suggested by Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, who was impatient for stronger British action against Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia. Addressing 20,000 followers at a youth rally in Lusaka, Kaunda attacked Wilson for his "kith and kin" policy on Rhodesia and threatened to propose Britain's expulsion at the next Commonwealth meeting unless Smith's gov ernment has been toppled by then. "Our stand on the rebels is final," Kaunda stressed. ";We refuse to be part and parcel of British treachery...
...further leverage on Wilson, Kaunda decided to withhold all hardcurrency payments to Rhodesia, due as its share of the jointly owned and operated railway that is Zambia's lifeline for copper exports and coal and consumer-goods imports. By jeopardizing his own economy, Kaunda hopes to put Wilson over a barrel and force him into more decisive action. To calm Kaunda down, last week Wilson sent Judith Hart, the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Lusaka. When she arrived, only two minor protocol officers were waiting to meet her, and toward week...