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Murray Forbes Somerville, Harvard's new University Organist and Choirmaster, learned to play the organ at a preparatory school in Rhodesia when he was 13 years...
Only twice before has the U.N. leveled mandatory sanctions to try to humble a recalcitrant state. Both attempts were flops. A ban on trade with Rhodesia was in effect for 13 years, beginning in 1967, after the white racist government unilaterally declared independence from Britain. Neighboring South Africa kept Rhodesia -- now Zimbabwe -- supplied with arms, gasoline and vital consumer goods while acting as middleman for the country's tobacco exports. In 1977 the U.N. banned arms sales to South Africa to protest apartheid, and independently, many countries restricted their economic ties in the mid-1980s. Still, South Africa's economy...
...country is vulnerable because its economy is staggering under the weight of $70 billion in war debts and the $10 billion-a-year cost of keeping 1 in 17 Iraqi citizens under arms. In addition, the sanctions against Iraq, unlike those against South Africa, are comprehensive. And unlike Rhodesia, Iraq derives its income almost entirely from one commodity, oil, which accounts for 95% of its exports. Unlike each of the other countries, Iraq lacks the industrial or agricultural base necessary to achieve a significant degree of self-sufficiency...
After leaving Harvard, I visited Rhodesia and South Africa as a journalist and was thrown out of the latter country for interviewing Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had been banned by the South African government. Then as now, the South African government was hell-bent on destroying every African leader who showed his head. The system there will not reform itself from within...
Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe joined hands in 1980 to fight a guerrilla war against their country's white-minority government. But soon after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the longtime rivals parted acrimoniously. Mugabe ruled the country as Prime Minister with the support of his ethnic group, the Shona, who make up about 80% of the population. Nkomo headed the main opposition party, composed of the Ndebele people. He was accused by the government of being behind Ndebele freedom fighters in the area of southwestern Zimbabwe known as Matabeleland. Since 1982 the rebels and the Shonas have waged a war that...