Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeunesse, and started sending home the Cubans. The government built sentry boxes in front of foreign embassies, ostensibly to keep the Congolese from contacting foreigners but in reality to isolate the large Chinese Embassy staff. Massamba-Debat also re-established relations with Great Britain, which were broken over the Rhodesia crisis 21 years ago. He even hinted that a U.S. mission, pulled out in 1965 because of ill-treatment of American diplomats, might again be welcome. Last month he climaxed his drive by dissolving the leftist-dominated National Assembly and by having several leaders of Jeunesse and his own party...
...gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American: and a Rhoedesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name, for they have no proof that he is dead. "No death certificate, no anything...
...more than Egypt's Aswan High Dam. Eventually, the dam will become a sort of common-market grid for white-dominated southern Africa. Most of the power will travel 800-mile-long lines to Pretoria and feed South Africa's industry, but Mozambique's other neighbors, Rhodesia and probably Malawi, will get their share...
...Allen Andrews, a British freelance writer, has sized up both Frewen and the times delightfully. He is right to point out that though other adventurers have enriched both themselves and vast territories with wilder schemes, they are perhaps less interesting as people. Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder, died leaving Rhodesia and the Kimberly Mines. Frewen, an empire bungler, left only splendid material for a loser's biography...
...Quite. The reason for this uncharacteristic flurry was a vote on a Labor government order tightening Britain's economic boycott of Rhodesia. Though Labor has a comfortable 72-vote majority in the House of Commons, Conservative hereditary peers dominate the Lords, which still has the power to delay for one year legislation passed by the House of Commons...