Word: rhodesian
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...Wilson get Smith to roll over and play dead-even for the few weeks before interest in the Common wealth conference blows over. In fact, fortnight ago Smith rebuffed some conciliatory gestures from Wilson by pressing ahead in the Rhodesian Parliament with a constitutional amendment that would empower police to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely without trial. At that, Wilson had no choice but to call back from Salisbury the two British diplomats who have been engaged in "talks about talks" that aimed at, among other things, securing constitutional guarantees for the personal liberties of black Rhodesians...
...Leader of the House, a position that will make him responsible for corralling the rebel Laborites, whose abstentions have been embarrassing to the Prime Minister. The former Leader of the House, Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that was made vacant by moving Anthony Greenwood to Minister of Housing...
...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith gets a degree there will be a riot, and that would bother the alumni, and the whole graduation show is designed to entertain the alumni anyway, so you can count...
...instigation for the meetings had come from Wilson. Firmly in command after last March's landslide election, he felt that he could deal from a new position of strength with the Rhodesian rebels, who had been stalling in hopes of a Tory victory. For his part, Ian Smith seemed content enough to explore the possibility of escaping from an increasingly uncomfortable domestic situation, which last week saw the price of petrol increase another 17?, to 84? per gal. The discussions, expected to last for at least two weeks, were mainly on practical procedural matters, such as an agenda...
Amid all the unrealities, the Rhodesian crisis did enter a new phase last week. Smith's white security forces, led by helicopters, trapped a small band of guerrillas in the hills 85 miles northwest of Salisbury. Seven of the guerrillas were killed. Smith's government charged that they had all crossed the border from Zambia the week before. What ever their point of origin, the significance of the encounter was clear. For the first time since Smith seized inde pendence last November, Rhodesia's blacks were beginning to fight...