Word: rhodesian
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...usually tranquil-dividing line between black-ruled and white-ruled Africa. In the past two months, however, the muddy, snaking river that separates Zambia from Rhodesia has become something of a war zone. Its banks are studded on both sides with mines, its waters are patrolled by Zambian and Rhodesian gunboats, and gunfire echoes sporadically along its 400-mile border section...
...Ocean port of Beira in Mozambique for shipment to world markets; Rhodesia needed the $25 million a year that the copper shipments brought its railroad in transit revenue. The arrangement-a triumph of pragmatism over politics-has now been scuttled by a series of guerrilla attacks by exiled black Rhodesian rebels who operate under an umbrella organization called FROLIZI (Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe-the African term for Rhodesia). After a particularly bloody outburst during the Christmas holidays, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith closed the border to Zambia...
...wait for the verdict of history. In fact, if the border closure did anything, it changed a frontier to a front and encouraged the guerrillas to make ever-bolder attacks. They have already infiltrated Rhodesia through Mozambique, where there is no river barrier. In recent weeks, a score of Rhodesian and South African policemen (who help with border patrolling) have been killed or wounded. In addition, three civilians have been killed and five wounded in border areas...
Harder times lie ahead for Rhodesia's blacks. The Parliament of the breakaway colony recently adopted a series of harsh new measures designed to impose South African-style apartheid on its 5,000,000 subjugated Africans. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith still speaks confidently of achieving a "settlement" with Britain some time next year. But he knows full well that the new measures, if his government enforces them severely, could hardly be accepted by the British government...
Among other things, the new laws 1) forbid Rhodesian blacks to travel outside the country unless each journey is approved by a white civil servant, 2) force all Africans over age 16 to carry an identity pass at all times, on pain of a $140 fine and six months in jail, 3) reinforce the segregation of public swimming pools, 4) bar blacks from moving to white urban areas unless they have jobs or special permits, 5) prevent Africans from being served food and drink in white areas after 7 p.m. on weekdays and all day Sunday, and 6) declare purely...