Word: rhodesia
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...idealists. He enjoyed young people and befriended them, treated them as adults; it was not rare to find Allard Lowenstein, hours after a speech at a university, squatting Indian-style on the floor of a dormitory common room discussing, in an "uncannily lucid manner, what must be done about Rhodesia or Vietnam or Mississippi or Harlem." And young people identified with his "casual, rumpled eloquence" and followed him--to Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1963 and to New England to knock on doors for Eugene McCarthy...
...latest streak of violence is a disquieting sign that the fragile tribal coalition that turned white-ruled Rhodesia into black-governed Zimbabwe in 1980 is crumbling. On one side are Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and nearly 6 million members of the Shona tribes; opposing them are Joshua Nkomo, the rival nationalist leader, and the 1.5 million-strong Ndebeles. Mugabe supporters blame the holiday terror on diehard members of Nkomo's ZIPRA guerrilla army, which was disbanded after the nation's seven-year civil war had ended. Nkomo stoutly denies any responsibility for the rebel actions, although he does...
...During Rhodesia's long, bloody civil war, Prime Minister Ian Smith was a staunch defender of a white Rhodesia and imposed draconian measures against black opponents. Now that Rhodesia has become Zimbabwe and blacks govern in the capital of Harare, once Salisbury, Smith, 63, has had reason to ponder some of his past actions: the same emergency powers that he invoked to defend white minority rule are being used against...
...resilience. Because the sanctions were never imposed uniformly by all nations, the target countries evaded the embargoes and avoided economic collapse by rerouting their trade through sympathetic allies or neutrals. Italy bought vital oil supplies from the U.S., which was not a member of the League of Nations. Rhodesia funneled chrome shipments and other exports through South Africa and Mozambique, where they were resold to other countries. Cuba eased its economic troubles by accepting aid from the Soviet Union...
...Rhodesia was ultimately strengthened in some ways by trade sanctions because the country was forced to develop its own industry to manufacture such essential products as railway cars and steel tubing. "In the decade from 1965 to 1975," writes Renwick, "the Rhodesian economy was transformed from virtually total dependence on the importation of manufactured goods in exchange for raw materials to a remarkable degree of self-sufficiency in most areas except oil and industrial plant and machinery." It was a spreading guerrilla war, rather than trade warfare, that finally forced the white regime of Prime Minister Ian Smith to step...