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Last week Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith met at Gibraltar aboard the assault ship H.M.S. Fearless for what Smith called "the last, last chance" of agreement before Rhodesia goes its own way. It was also a slim chance, since both men have made pledges that are difficult to retract. Smith has vowed that Rhodesia's 220,000 whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come...
...jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American; and a Rhodesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name...
...guerrillas use it as a base for raids on the neighboring white supremacist regimes in Rhodesia and Southwest Africa. In turn, white agents infiltrate the country to spy on them. Zambia's 3,800,000 blacks resent the white minority of about 65,000, many of whom are Rhodesian and South African citizens who still hold the managerial jobs...
...executions caused a wave of revulsion. In the British Parliament, Smith and his government were condemned as "traitors" and "gangsters," and demands were made that they be punished. Prime Minister Wilson bitterly assailed the Rhodesian leaders as "essentially evil," and in Rome Pope Paul VI deplored their indifference to "reasons of humanity." At the United Nations, the U.S., which had just denied Smith a visitor's visa, called the executions an "outrageous act." Black African nations unleashed an oratorical storm, calling on Britain and the U.N. Security Council to use force if necessary to prevent more executions...
Showing Contempt. The Rhodesians were predictably unimpressed. Wilson, who long ago forswore the use of force against them, did not even bother to propose more economic sanctions. Those already used by Britain and the United Nations have proved ineffective in either throttling Rhodesia's economy or getting Rhodesia's whites to move gradually to black rule. By increasingly copying South Africa's tough apartheid methods, Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front stifles most political opposition and restricts most Africans to their tribal reserves and townships. Last week's defiance of Britain will certainly embolden the right...