Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colonial law used to suppress black nationalists in colonial Rhodesia," McElroy said...
DIED. JOSHUA NKOMO, 82, Father of Zimbabwe; from prostate cancer; in Harare. Nkomo spent years fighting Britain and later White Rhodesia for independence. Despite Nkomo's leadership, his erstwhile ally Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister in 1980. A subsequent split led to bloody clashes that ended with a 1987 peace accord and Nkomo's appointment to a powerless vice-presidential post...
...change worked. Paul's family moved to Rhodesia, where he regained his health. Later he attended medical school in Ireland, and, motivated by his childhood illness, became a pulmonologist and a leading asthma expert. "I wish I could speak to that Dublin physician now. He had great insight," says O'Byrne, who has learned that his early asthma attacks were allergic reactions to dust mites, which thrive in damp conditions...
Zimbabwe, formerly known by the colonial name Rhodesia, has successfully erased apartheid-like laws. "There are hundreds of thousands of Africans who left Zimbabwe when it was called Rhodesia, to go to Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the States," Maraire says. "These people want to come back to Zimbabwe." She knows that it will be difficult to readjust to her return, but she maintains that each person who returns gives another person an incentive to return. She declares, "The adjustments are worth...
...father a World War I amputee who gained more his wife's pity than her love. Doris was called Tigger after the Winnie-the-Pooh character -- the whole family had A.A. Milne nicknames -- because she was a "healthy bouncy beast." When she was five, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia, hearts set on the wealth to be had in farming and mining. But a crippled man could hardly tame the bush; living was rough and laborious...