Word: rhodesian
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...genuine horror story, calculated to make the most alarming of Rhodesian doomsday prophecies seem true. As a blood-red sun was sinking behind the thorn trees on the Zambezi escarpment, a lumbering Air Rhodesia Viscount airliner took off from Kariba on a flight to Salisbury. Ten minutes later the pilot, John Hood, 36, reported that he had lost control of his starboard engines. "We're going in," he radioed. In a few moments, his craft crashed into the thick bushland of the Whamira Hills...
...frequently lambasted London for participating in the embargo that followed his country's declaration of independence in 1965. Appointed to the figurehead presidency by Prime Minister Ian Smith in 1976, Wrathall had been expected to vacate his office at year's end, in favor of a black Rhodesian...
...Spud Murphy's, Salisbury's newest nightclub, young white Rhodesian soldiers lurched onto the dance floor last week and joined in a beery war dance to a current hit song, Sweet Banana. The song is a tribute to troopies like themselves "who fight with bravery-and win." A white businessman, surveying the scene, remarked, "Right now the only black man who could survive in this place would have to be at least a sergeant major -with a citation for valor in the Rhodesian army." A few miles away, in the black township of Harari, a well-known black...
Thus the pressure is increasing on the Executive Council to come to some kind of terms with the Patriotic Front. There is also pressure from London and Washington for all parties involved in the Rhodesian dispute to attend a conference to be held under Anglo-American sponsorship somewhere outside the country...
...prevailed in Washington last week. Buoyed by the recent agreement between Zaire and Angola to re-establish formal relations and cease their border fighting, U.S. officials are still hoping that a peaceful solution in Namibia could have some direct influence in pointing the way to a resolution of the Rhodesian crisis. "The situation is just about as good as could be expected," a State Department specialist remarked last week. "In fact, we've made more progress than we thought possible 15 months ago." Those who favor an end to the strife in Namibia were hoping that progress would continue...