Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's more conservative, anti-Communist governments welcomed Nixon's election, especially such rightist strongholds as South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal. It was only in Greece, however, that people actually celebrated the event. The cause for Greek enthusiasm, of course, was Spiro T. Agnew, whose father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, was born in Gargalianoi in southern Greece. Of the town's present 7,000 inhabitants about 300 are named Anagnostopoulos...
Last week Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith met at Gibraltar aboard the assault ship H.M.S. Fearless for what Smith called "the last, last chance" of agreement before Rhodesia goes its own way. It was also a slim chance, since both men have made pledges that are difficult to retract. Smith has vowed that Rhodesia's 220,000 whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come...
Intransigent Right. Both men had at least some compelling reasons to try to reach agreement. The economic sanctions, for example, threaten Rhodesia with permanent loss of the British tobacco market. Yet far from softening Rhodesia's stand, as Wilson hoped, the sanctions have only helped create a more intransigent opposition on Smith's right. When Smith emerged victorious over Rhodesia's extreme rightists in a by-election this summer, Wilson evidently decided that he might never have a better chance for compromise...
Aboard the Fearless, Wilson hinted that if Smith could guarantee the principle of "unimpeded progress toward majority African rule," other matters might be negotiated, such as an extended timetable for giving Africans a larger say in ruling Rhodesia. Wilson has also maintained all along that any new constitution must be acceptable to all Rhodesians, meaning by majority vote. Smith has insisted that it be approved only by a vote among the black chiefs, who are in his government's pay. Smith has not made the chiefs' acquiescence overly difficult. Since 1965, his government has underwritten a program...
...find 100% of Rhodesians against acceptance." Yet if Wilson backed down, he would have to face the wrath of black nations in the Commonwealth and, humiliatingly, ask the United Nations to withdraw its sanctions. Also, he presumably does not wish to be remembered as the Prime Minister who consigned Rhodesia's black majority to the same apartheid fate as that endured by the blacks of South Africa...