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Britain refuses to grant Southern Rhodesia full independence until this inequity is remedied, while Southern Rhodesia's "cowboy government" - so named because its ruling, white-supremacist Rhodesian Front Party consists mostly of ranchers - threatens to buck rather than submit to the rowels of a black majority. The cowboys say that they will declare independence from Britain unilaterally if they are not granted it this year under the existing constitution. Last week the cowboys kicked out their old range boss, Prime Minister Winston Field, 60, in favor of a tougher, younger...
Indeed, it was only with the collapse of the Central African Federation last January that Kenneth Kaunda's Northern Rhodesian government was free to permit refugees safe passage on their way north. Scores have already made the trip through Freedom Alley. Thousands more will follow as South Africa's black and colored people grow ever more restive under Hendrik Verwoerd's oppressive regime. Most of the refugees are young men (usually in their 20s or 30s) headed for freedom-fighter training camps, either around Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam or else in the Leopoldville...
Sophomores Clive Kileff and Dave Benjamin are currently backing up the top two. Kileff, a Southern Rhodesian, was playing at Forest Hills before he entered college, and should be a strong number three man if he doesn't move up the ladder. Benjamin, last year's top freshman player, is working back into form after a winter of squash. Since he relies on his ground strokes, he may take a while to work into shape...
Melancholiacs may get a lift from the clownish affenpinscher, a tiny cross between a terrier and a Pekingese, whose funny face is wreathed in a perpetual smile. Nonconformists will appreciate a Rhodesian ridgeback, an African lion dog that must be patted from tail to head because his fur grows that way. Heavy drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call...
...neighboring white-dominated Central African Federation, which was dissolved last New Year's Eve, that hundreds of such "refugees" are living in house trailers in South African cities. During the last three weeks of 1963, 3,000 more of them poured across the Limpopo River through the Southern Rhodesian border township of Beitbridge...