Word: rhodesian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airport to make Rhodesia their home-perhaps only for a few months, perhaps longer if their luck holds. Hundreds more show up every month to look around, but are rejected as immigrants because of their lack of job skills. "It's a crazy world," admits one Rhodesian immigration official...
Kangai told his generally responsive audience of about 50 that ZANU believes any black government that comes out of negotiations with Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and the U.S. will be a "puppet government," and will not resolve the basic issue of the Zimbabwean conflict...
...French right and yet also end the Algerian War. One promising sign: Vorster has already warned Smith to accept two senior emissaries if, as expected, the Security Council passes a British resolution this week endorsing such a peace-keeping mission. The officials would be empowered to visit both the Rhodesian armed forces and the guerrilla armies of the Patriotic Front to try to arrange a ceasefire...
Caltex is owned jointly by Texaco and Standard Oil of California. It operates a refinery in Cape Town, and markets petroleum products throughout the country. It also owns shares in two Southern Rhodesian marketing and refining companies. Caltex employs about 2000 workers in South Africa, about a third of them black. The average African wage in 1972 was $139 a month; the minimum...
...early to say how the new proposals for Rhodesia will work out. But we have taken two very firm views. First, democracy in any country is about the people inside the country determining what sort of government they themselves want. Secondly, we believe that if the Rhodesian security forces were to be disbanded, that could introduce a destabilizing factor. They have in fact maintained security, and we believe they would serve any new government that had properly been elected, obviously with black Rhodesians having their full chance to vote. So it would be most unwise to disband them. Beyond that...