Word: rhodesian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Basis for Settlement. The tragedy is that only a few days before, a solution to the long Rhodesian crisis had seemed almost within grasp. Meeting on board the British cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had taken only two days to hammer out a "working document" that, Wilson announced, "should serve as the basis for a settlement...
...document called for constitutional amendments that would give Rhodesia's overwhelming black majority an immediate minority voice in the government, yet preserve white rule for a period that Wilson estimated would last about ten years. A Royal Commission composed of Rhodesians would draft the necessary amendments, which would be submitted to "Rhodesians as a whole" for approval. In the meantime, censorship would be lifted, political prisoners freed and "normal" political activity permitted. The Rhodesian Parliament, whose hard-line white-supremacist majority might try to block the new constitution, would be dissolved and all legislative powers handed over to British...
Despite economic sanctions against them, Rhodesians seem to be enjoying their independence. One year after Smith's declaration, The U.D.I. Song was again the top tune on the Rhodesian hit parade. It goes...
Next month marks the anniversary of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain. During each of the last eleven months, a settlement to the crisis often seemed just around the corner. But British delaying tactics and half-hearted measures have kept the final outcome as uncertain today as it was a year...
...crucial consideration for all concerned will be just how far the U.N. is prepared to go. If it begins to appear that the U.N. will take a hard line on the Rhodesian situation, chances are that within the month Britain will be in the final stages of negotiating a settlement with the rebel government...