Word: rhodesian
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...give me one good reason why American taxpayers should feel obligated to spend so much as a penny upon Kissinger's "Rhodesian solution" [Sept...
...Rhodesian whites are of British origin, and the white investments there have been British. Britain should pay the full $2 billion...
...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's capitulation on transition to majority rule within two years was South African pressure. South African Prime Minister John Vorster appears to have threatened that if Smith did not accept majority rule he would end fuel and water supplies to Rhodesia, as well as cutting its rail links to the outside world, thus bringing the Rhodesian economy to its kness immediately. Vorster's aims are quite straightforward: he hopes to consolidate apartheid at home by sacrificing Rhodesia and so defusing violent conflict on his borders. At the same time, his policies are designed to change...
THESE AMBIGUITIES in the Rhodesian settlement are sufficient to require a quite different sort of agreement, and the front-line African presidents are right to have rejected this one. They do not appear, however, to have rejected the principle of negotiation with American involvement. This is also politically intelligent--Black Africans have nothing to gain from a bloody and protracted guerrilla war nor from the dependence on Soviet aid such a war would require...
...Honest. Smith left the meeting looking pale and angry. He took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way. Though it seems hard to imagine, Smith is a moderate by Rhodesian standards, and at Umtali he faced a right-wing revolt led by Party Chairman Desmond Frost, who would like to split Rhodesia into black and white sectors under overall white control. After six hours of speechmaking and debate, Smith forced the issue in a dramatic scene. "Are you with me or are you not?" he demanded...