Word: rhodesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partnership with the scholarly Robert Mugabe, the huge, outgoing Joshua Nkomo, 64, fought a seven-year guerrilla war against the white Rhodesian government and led his country to independence as black-ruled Zimbabwe three years ago. His fortunes have been declining ever since. He lost the presidential elections to Mugabe, largely because his Ndebele tribe is less than a fourth the size of Mugabe's predominant Shona constituency. Nkomo served in Mugabe's Cabinet for 22 months, but was dropped last year amid rumors that his followers were plotting against the government. A week ago, Nkomo was detained...
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...
...life, he is very familiar with the life back in Africa. He has 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...
...attackers-mostly said to be former members of Rhodesian and South African army units as well as a few Americans, Britons and other Europeans-were reportedly paid $1,000 and promised a further $10,000 if their mission was successful. It was unclear who put up the money. René, 46, who was established in power by a coup in 1977, has plenty of enemies. His Marxist leanings have embittered wealthy islanders and prompted two previous coup attempts...
...answer to The Riddle of Violence shows that violence can be superior to non-violence because force can stop suffering, while inaction or non-violence may allow it to continue. The Rhodesian climate--social, economic and ethical--obviated passive resistance as a successful method to end the subjugation of its Blacks; to abolish the inequity, violence was necessary. Now, Kauna warns, South African whites must decide by which measure they wish to succumb. For as this leader has now proven twice in his lifetime, the advocates of minority rule in Black Africa will inevitably face a day of reckoning