Word: rhodesian
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...white supremacist regime seized in dependence last year only to forestall British attempts to give the land's over whelming African majority a hand in running the government. Therefore, agree all members of the Common wealth, the only way for Rhodesian blacks to gain true independence is for Britain to regain control...
Afraid that Wilson might come to terms with the Rhodesian regime, they demanded that he agree to something called NIBMAR - an acronym standing for "No Independence Before Majority African Rule...
boycott would bring Britain into conflict with South Africa and endanger the strong and lucrative trade ties the two share. He fudged on NIBMAR; but to prove that his heart was in the right place, he delivered an ultimatum of sorts to Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Unless Smith agreed to form an "acceptable" government by Christmas, Wilson would ask the U.N. to impose mandatory sanctions on Rhodesian pig iron, chrome and asbestos...
...cars-whose tanks are filled with gasoline sneaked across the border from South Africa and Mozambique. Factories are still running at nearly full speed, and white unemployment is virtually nonexistent. The country can import whatever it likes from South Africa. There is a desperate shortage of golf balls, and Rhodesian whites are having to make do with locally produced candy, clothing and false teeth, but nothing essential is missing from the shelves...
...Choice. The fact is that Smith has never been stronger. His whites are solidly behind him; although political opposition is still legal, none exists. Last week the Rhodesian High Court, whose members had opposed seizing independence from the start, handed down a decision that assured Smith of at least reluctant collaboration. Turning down an appeal by two men who had been imprisoned without trial at the time of independence, the justices ruled that the Smith government, although "illegal," was in effective control of the country -and that the court had to go along with its dictates...