Word: rhodesian
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...shouting, sweating but engaging demagogue, his inevitable red suspenders maintaining a tenuous hold on his tentlike trousers. When his speech grows indistinct, he merrily apologizes for his badly fitting false teeth. He accuses Britain of "pandering to pan-Africanism." has called London's Lancaster House, where the Rhodesian constitutional conferences took place, "that place of infamy...
...white mercenaries in the army. At his Elisabethville headquarters, Tshombe was simply stalling for time while his Katanga army units were getting stronger by the day. He had worked hard to build a second bastion, the "rearguard capital" of Kipushi, a mining town 25 miles away on the Northern Rhodesian frontier, where machine-gun nests and slit trenches were manned day and night by Katanga's nervous, trigger-happy troops...
...Spare Parts." The U.N. also insisted that a regular flow of arms and supplies was moving north to Katanga from Northern Rhodesia, the British-backed territory run by Tshombe's white friend, Rhodesian Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky. Purpose: a new buildup of Katanga army units now making their headquarters at Kipushi, a mining town smack on the Katanga-Rhodesian frontier. Sir Roy denied all, and boarded a plane for a personal inspection on the Katanga frontier to make certain that no war contraband was getting through...
...talent for leadership too rare to dispense with. But to survive, insisted the U.S., he would have to use that talent for the Congo, not just Katanga. By week's end the U.N. was in the center of Elisabethville, and Tshombe reportedly had fled to the Rhodesian border...
Luthuli's moderation stems from the deep influence on his life of Christian missionaries. Only two generations removed from Zulu witchcraft, he grew up in a Southern Rhodesian mission, where his father served as an interpreter-evangelist. Educated in mission schools in Natal, Luthuli in 1921 graduated from Congregationalist Adams College, south of Durban, stayed on to teach the Zulu language and music. But in 1935 he gave up his promising and lucrative academic career to become the elected chief of his poverty-stricken Zulu tribe in the Groutville district, thus following in the footsteps of four chieftain ancestors...