Word: rhodesian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese in Paris aimed at establishing diplomatic relations with Peking. Now the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations was directed to back moves for a neutralized zone in the Indian Ocean. He was also told to reverse field and support Third World resolutions against white-supremacist Rhodesia. A Rhodesian information of fice in Sydney was ordered shut down. South Africa was told that sporting teams selected along racial lines would not be allowed into Australia, not even as transients en route to other countries. At a press conference, Whitlam said that he favored "a more independent Australian stance in international...
...Rhodesian athletes were desolated by the decision. Perhaps the bitterest was Bernard Dzoma, 31, a black long-distance runner from Salisbury who has twice trained for the Olympics. In 1968 he and his teammates were thwarted from participating in the Mexico City games because Mexico did not recognize Rhodesian passports. This year, a full week after he had arrived at the Olympic Village, Dzoma learned he would not run. "All I can say is that I'm at my end," he said. "I shall never enter any race again...
Lord Killanin's views are not diametrically opposed to those of Brundage. For example, he sided unsuccessfully with Brundage on the Rhodesian issue. But his new eight-year term does augur the beginning of some healthy changes in the Olympic movement. "I don't believe in open Olympics," he says. "I don't believe in professional Olympics. But I do think we have to realize that we are about to enter the last quarter of the 20th century." Killanin has already hinted at one possible change. In an effort to shake the image of the I.O.C...
...march makes several stops along Embassy Row, at the Portuguese Embassy, the Rhodesian Information Center and the South African Embassy. At each stop statements of indictment are read, and support for liberation fighters is reaffirmed. There is to be one more stop, at the United States State Department, and a rally at the Washington Monument, which has been renamed Lumumba Square for African Liberation Day. But before the march comes...
What happens next? There will certainly be further negotiations, but not for a while. Prime Minister Ian Smith is in trouble with the right wing of his Rhodesian Front Party for having agreed to the settlement in the first place. His renunciations of the Pearce Commission-last week he accused it of "naivete and ineptness"-are intend ed to help him recoup his position with Rhodesia's 250,000 whites...