Word: rhodesian
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...analysis will be entirely impartial," said Lord Pearce, the retired British jurist, when the 20-member Pearce Commission ended its eight-week fact-finding mission in Rhodesia in March. The commission's task was to determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...
...security council passed a resolution recommending the admission of Bangladesh to the U.N. and resolutions on the Middle East and nuclear disarmament. They defeated a resolution proposed by the USSR which urged the United Kingdom to stop talks with Ian Smith's Rhodesian government...
...Argentine freighter Santos Vega, now on the high seas, is due to dock at New Orleans this month with a cargo of Rhodesian chrome. The shipment violates the sanctions against trade with Rhodesia imposed by the United Nations Security Council in 1966 and marks the first time the U.S. has deliberately ignored its U.N. charter obligations...
...Anglo-Rhodesian settlement fails, what will happen next? The British may well inform the United Nations that continuing the economic embargo of Rhodesia is no longer feasible, and may eventually try-probably in vain-to negotiate a new deal that will be acceptable to Rhodesia's 5,260,000 blacks as well as its 239,000 whites. In the meantime, the whites may well turn further to the right, perhaps toppling Ian Smith from office. They will deal with the African National Council as they have handled troublesome blacks in the past-by locking up the leaders...
...genies back into the box, have no fear about that," boasts Rhodesian Information Minister P.K. Van Der Byl. The blacks, however, will not soon forget what they have learned in the past six weeks. "It may take six years, it may take ten," says Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the council's principal leader, "but we will not stop until we have reached our goal-freedom...