Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went on a violent rampage that has flared sporadically ever since. Homes, shops and autombiles were put to the torch, and hundreds of pro-North sympathizers were tortured and killed. Last week, when Commonwealth nations gathered in Nigeria's seaport capital of Lagos to discuss the Rhodesia question, they found a city under siege. Extra police patrolled the downtown area, and roads were littered with charred automobiles. Then, shortly after Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrived back in England, all cable, telephone and radio communications out of Nigeria suddenly blinked...
...coup against Nigerian Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa last week, leaders of 19 of the British Commonwealth's 22 nations* met in Lagos to discuss another troubled country: Rhodesia. Britain had its early misgivings about the two-day conference. It was the first such meeting ever held outside Britain, the first presided over by anyone but the British Prime Minister, the first called on the initiative of a government other than Britain, and the first with only a single-item agenda...
...suggested the meeting last month as a way to head off precipitate action by Africa's angry extremists. "We believe the policy we are following," Wilson said, "is right, appropriate, and will be effective." He could point to the fact that British sanctions have already cut Rhodesia's main exports 90% -including sugar, tobacco, copper, chrome, steel and meat. American importers are boycotting Rhodesian asbestos and lithium; Japan banned Rhodesian iron imports starting April 1. Even with strict gasoline rationing (one gallon a week for small cars, two gallons for large cars), the country has only an eight...
...force is the only way to bring Smith down. "All right," Wilson snapped, leaping to his feet. "Suppose we made you commander in chief of this invasion force. Could you give us a date by which you could end the Smith regime? How would you get British forces into Rhodesia in sizable numbers without a buildup of several months-a buildup that would be obvious and might result in Kariba Dam's being blown up? These are some of the questions, my friend. How would you answer them?" He didn...
...that the world requires more copper than is being mined. And as it has in many other fields (see U.S. BUSINESS), the Viet Nam war has been making additional demands on the already strained copper supply. The supply is also being threatened by strikes in Chile, the possibility that Rhodesia will cut off neighbor Zambia's supply routes and, as ever, the unsure state of Congo politics. Such a sellers' market was too much to resist for Chile, Zambia and the Congo, all of whose developing economies are largely based on the metal...