Word: rhodesia
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...United States continually vetoes United Nations economic sanctions against South Africa, while many of America's largest corporations have a vested interest in the status quo, nor can we expect that policy to change until those companies have withdrawn. Yet one need only look at the case of Rhodesia to see the effectiveness of such sanctions. I do not mean to suggest that all is now well in Rhodesia, but since the imposition of economic sanctions, there has been progress towards majority rule that would have been unimaginable earlier. South Africa is a different case, of course--its domestic economy...
...government proclaimed a stern law and then winked at its offenders? Who knew about the misdeeds? How much did they know? The affair that Britons were dubbing "Oilgate" threatened to reach into the highest places. At issue was whether ministers of the Crown in the years following Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965 were aware that British Petroleum (BP) and London-based Shell International were helping to supply oil to that outlaw colony in defiance of British statute and U.N. sanctions...
From his base in Zambia, Nkomo announced that the plan for an all-parties conference on Rhodesia, long advocated by Britain and the U.S., was "dead and buried" and that "the only way left is war." He again sought to justify the destruction of the airliner. "Having about 40 people killed in a plane crash is not pleasant," he said. "We are not rejoicing over death. But the Rhodesian armed forces are killing 30 to 40 of our people...
...Rhodesian settlement, still favor such a conference. So does Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's somewhat estranged partner in the Patriotic Front. Mugabe is not nearly as popular a political figure as Nkomo, but because he controls at least two-thirds of the guerrillas who are fighting inside Rhodesia, he must obviously be a party to any successful settlement...
...countries as diverse as Iran, Nicaragua and Rhodesia, the first response of the three beleaguered governments to civil emergencies this month was to impose martial law. In Rhodesia this meant little, since the country had been under military control since the guerrilla war began six years ago. In Iran the Shah's declaration brought a clampdown on civil liberties and empowered the army to arrest without charges and to invade homes without warrants. In Nicaragua martial law merely underscored Anastasio Somoza's desperate situation. Said a Managua businessman: "Martial law here is simply a license to kill...