Word: rhodesia
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...having fought, let us now say: 'It is all over.' " Those conciliatory words were spoken by Joshua Nkomo after he emerged from a green and white Zambia Airways jet onto the tarmac of Salisbury airport. The bulky, silver-haired black nationalist leader had returned to Rhodesia, after more than three years of exile, to begin campaigning for next month's independence elections. Because of a flurry of death threats, security at the airport was extremely heavy: grim reminders of lingering white bitterness over Nkomo's role in Rhodesia's bloody seven-year guerrilla...
...spokesman for Lord Soames, Rhodesia's British caretaker governor, last week charged Mugabe's Mozambique-based forces with flagrant cease-fire violations. Soames extended the state of emergency, which was due to expire this week, for another six months. From...
Perhaps the most embarrassing rebuke came from the London-based Amnesty International, which charged the British administrators with violating human rights in Rhodesia. This charge stems mainly from Soames' continued detention of political offenders under the state of emergency regulations...
...Since 1973 oil producers have openly used their petroleum weapon to further their Middle East political objectives. Last year Nigeria introduced natural resources trade-offs by threatening to cut oil exports to the U.S. if the Carter Administration lifted the American boycott on chrome imports from racially troubled Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Both the possibility of other OPEC-type raw material cartels and Soviet economic retaliation against the U.S. have begun to worry the experts. Warns Harry J. Gray, chairman of United Technologies: "The minerals situation is similar to oil. Without an intelligent national minerals policy now, we will become increasingly vulnerable...
Chromium. The major deposits of this material, used in stainless steel, ball bearings and surgical equipment, are in South Africa, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the Soviet Union. Says Allen G. Gray, technical director of the American Society of Metals: "A cutoff of our chromium supply could be even more serious than a cutoff of our oil supply. We do have some oil, but we have almost no chromium...