Word: rhodesian
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...industrialist gets burned at Rhodesian liberation politics...
...Lonrho had been evading the United Nations' economic sanctions against Rhodesia (which black African leaders refer to as Zimbabwe). In fact, the move was an irritated response by Nyerere, a prominent backer of the Patriotic Front, to Rowland's ambiguous dealings with both sides in the delicate Rhodesian situation...
...commander once declaimed: "You legionnaires are soldiers in order to die and I am sending you where you can die." Today, the French army is not so quick to send them to that fate. Early this year a number of commandos left the legion -in order to join the Rhodesian army...
...Last week the council announced a unilateral cease-fire under which guerrillas are guaranteed the right of safe return and of participation in elections. The plan stopped well short of what the guerrillas are demanding, however. It contained no provision, for instance, for absorbing any returning guerrillas into the Rhodesian armed forces...
...should think of our allies, the guerrilas fighting in Zimbabwe, as they pit their courage against the over-whelming superior armed might of the illegal Ian Smith regime. And the people of now-independent Mozambique, amid their own struggle against poverty and exploitation, who closed their border to Rhodesian goods in solidarity with the guerrillas--an action that hurt their own economy...