Word: rhodesian
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...Vorster vowed at the time that South Africa's critics would be surprised "at where the country will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid it on the line to Ian Smith: unless Smith would work actively toward achieving a Rhodesian settlement South Africa would consider withdrawing its antiguerrilla police, who help the Rhodesians maintain order along the Zambezi River boundary between Rhodesia and Zambia...
...outlets would mean swift economic strangulation for Rhodesia. A much longer rail route exists through Botswana to South Africa's ports. Last month, however, Botswana's President Sir Seretse Khama announced that he Intended to take over the rail line, and he might well close it to Rhodesian traffic. Thanks to a crash construction program, a direct rail link to South Africa was recently opened, but this new single-track line cannot possibly handle all the nation's exports. Moreover, it feeds into South Africa's already overcrowded rail system and ports...
...Among his opinions: new wage-price controls would hamper steel production; the U.S. should "close the gates" on exports of steel scrap (presumably because they tend to keep supplies down and prices up at home); it would be a "tragedy" if the U.S. reimposed an embargo on imports of Rhodesian chrome; and there is only one way that American industry can raise the capital it needs to expand-"more profits...
...DANGER THAT WHITES WOULD SET UP RHODESIAN-STYLE GOVERNMENTS IN THE TERRITORIES. "It is a danger. It has receded for the moment, but it cannot be ignored. There is a population there that acquired its rights with difficulty, and sometimes abused these rights, who find it difficult to resign themselves to a new historical situation. This has occurred all over Africa. We are not an exception...
...decision may have been the effectiveness of ZANU terrorism, which has cast an aura of fear over the northern half of the country. On the highway just 40 miles north of Salisbury, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs recently encountered about 40 soldiers of the white-led, black-staffed Rhodesian African Rifles, gingerly searching the roadside bush. Behind them were three trucks with more soldiers and heavy weapons pointed outward in all directions. Griggs found Centenary, which is just 100 miles from Salisbury, a virtual armed camp, with soldiers always carrying their weapons at the ready. A nearby airstrip is used...