Word: rhodesia
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...survey by British Diplomat Robin Renwick. The book dispassionately examines numerous episodes of economic warfare, including the League of Nations trade restrictions against Italy following its 1935 invasion of Ethiopia and the U.S. embargo of Cuba after Castro came to power in 1959. As a former head of the Rhodesia department of the British Foreign Office, Renwick brings particular insight to his discussion of the 13-year United Nations effort to topple Rhodesia's white government through a trade embargo...
Renwick's study shows that sanctions can seriously damage the economy of a target nation. Italy's exports fell about 35% after the League of Nations action. Rhodesia's tobacco farmers, heavily dependent on sales abroad, suffered a two-thirds cut in their income. Cuba's economy stalled in part because the country could not obtain spare parts for American-made machinery...
...late 20th century: the massacre shots. We see the crumpled litter of bodies, the familiar, companionably mounded flesh reposing on the bare dirt in the sun in a stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in Viet Nam and El Salvador and Uganda and Rhodesia and God knows where. My Lai is the primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment. And yet, unless the slaughter has some especially lunatic...
...place in the heartland of Nkomo's Ndebele tribe, was just one of several recent signs that the uneasy truce among the Ndebeles, Mugabe's majority Shonas and Zimbabwe's white minority is threatening to break apart only 27 months after the transformation of white-dominated Rhodesia into black-dominated Zimbabwe. Mugabe and the rotund Nkomo had helped negotiate the terms of Zimbabwe's independence. In the ensuing election, Nkomo was defeated for the prime ministership by Mugabe, and since then there has been a growing rift between the two nationalist leaders. Last February, Mugabe dismissed...
...spent virtually every summer since high school in Africa, including six months during the end of his senior year at Newton South. He spent last summer researching and writing his senior thesis on the Rhodesian Labor Party from 1920 to 1948. His father (who was born in Rhodesia and is now an importer and international business consultant) and mother (who was born in Jackson, Miss.) moved back to the capital city of Salisbury in 1977. He remembers well the long civil war that turned Lan Smith's Rhodesia into Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. The country side, Samkange says...