Word: rhodesian
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...enterprises and creating new ones in seven south-central African nations, and it is hungrily casting about for more. Last week Lonrho began operating a 187-mile, $11.2 million pipeline that it built through the jungle to funnel crude oil from the Mozambique port of Beira to a new Rhodesian refinery that will supply the growing markets in Rhodesia and Zambia...
...joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises as the daily Zambia Times and Chibuku beer. His success has brought Rowland a Rhodesian maize-and-cattle ranch of his own and a creeper-covered English mansion in the exclusive Salisbury suburb of Highlands...
Nasser referred to the white South African and Rhodesian mercenaries whom Tshombe has hired to lead his government's troops against the rebels who have taken control of much of the northern and northeastern Congo. Rhodesia and South Africa both maintain an internal policy of white supremacy. Both nations enjoy the frank hostility of most African countries, and Tshombe's hiring soldiers from them has not enhanced his popularity with his African neighbors...
...quick to come to Britain's aid. In Rhodesia, the white minority leadership threatened to declare its independence from Britain, and in so doing destroy London's plans toward establishing African self-government in that troubled country (see THE WORLD). After a warning to the Rhodesian whites from Prime Minister Wilson, the U.S. State Department issued a supporting statement, noting that Wilson's message "makes clear some of the serious consequences that could befall all Rhodesians. The U.S. hopes that the Rhodesian government will continue to discuss with the United Kingdom government ways to achieve a satisfactory...
Unwilling even to consider such heresy, White Supremacist Ian Smith has been marching rowdily toward the point of no return: unilateral declaration of independence (UDI), the likes of which Britain has not faced since 1776. As Rhodesians prepared for the showdown, they got a crackdown instead. Tipped off by Smith's brusque refusal to discuss the situation in London last week, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent his Rhodesian colleague a memorandum warning direly that UDI would be "treasonable," an "open act of defiance and rebellion" that would bring swift reprisal by Britain...