Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zambezi as Barotseland's latest Litunga, Sir Mwamawina Lewanika III, 75, entertained his new overlord. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's newest and most moderate leaders, wanted to make a good impression on the province he had inherited five months ago when Northern Rhodesia became independent. Kaunda accompanied the Litunga to the royal barge, where Sir Mwamawina switched his garb-from a frock coat, striped trousers and pearl-grey topper to the Royal Navy uniform his father had worn...
Hoare sent out an appeal for more mercenaries, and by last week he had recruited and trained 270 new whites from South Africa, Rhodesia and Britain, who got six weeks of drill at the Congo's Kamina airbase, then moved north with Hoare to perform their first big mission-isolation of the rebels from their sanctuaries in Sudan and Uganda...
...number two is Clive Kileff, a junior from Southern Rhodesia and another baseliner. Following Kileff is Captain Dean Peckham, who moved up from eight to number six last year just in time to thrash Princeton's highly-touted Lee Rawls, 6-0, 6-1. Last fall he defeated teammate Chauncy Steele in a challenge match to take over the varsity’s third slot...
...challenge could well be the rebels' only chance to be anything but jungle terrorists. In the northeastern Congo last week, Tshombe's troops were preparing to move. In Bunia, near the Uganda border, Major Mike Hoare had arrived with 300 fresh mercenaries from South Africa and Rhodesia. An additional 400 Belgian and French mercenaries were poised in the jungle towns to the west of the rebels' center, and Tshombe's own Congolese army was not far behind, presumably waiting only for the end of the O.A.U. conference to strike. Object of the new offensive...
More immediate is the question of Bechuanaland's relations with its neighbors. Hemmed in on all sides by white Africa (Rhodesia on the east and apartheid-minded South Africa and its South-West Africa dependency on the south, west and north), Bechuanaland is tied economically to the nations that every true black nationalist hates. With the two other British High Commission territories of Basutoland and Swaziland, Seretse's domain is joined with South Africa in a customs union, uses South African currency, and in the past has cooperated in transportation, trade, health and general development with Dr. Hendrik...