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...Rhodesia by June 15, and had written to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd urging him "not to support any initiative that would preempt existing law or prejudge the issue at stake." This is exactly what Senator Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican who has long supported the white Rhodesian cause, had been thumping for. When Helms' position seemed to be gaining strength last week, the Senate settled for a compromise resolution that was not legally binding on the President. But one senior White House aide acknowledged that "some policy alterations look inevitable" in light of the Senate action...
Neil Koblitz's letter concerning Harvard and the Rhodesian connection (May 21) is guilty of just the short-sightedness and "shocking display of cynicism and ignorance" he confers on the U.S. Senate and the Harvard Corporation. I fully agree that the Corporation's refusal to back the Mobil and Standard Oil shareholder resolutions (calling for a reduction of oil trade by one-third, the amount believed to be sent by South Africa to Rhodesia) is indeed a political action, and it is erroneous to believe the Corporation is politically neutral...
...Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, said yesterday he questions whether a secondary boycott of Rhodesian oil is appropriate now that Ian Smith has given in and is forming a coalition government...
...price. The growing warfare has caused Botswana to create its own 2,000-man defense force; the $25 million start-up cost is a heavy burden for a nation whose total population is a mere 780,000. Last year, in the most serious incident to date, a band of Rhodesian government commandos opened fire on a Botswana army convoy and killed 15 recruits; they were the first Botswanan soldiers ever to die in an African war. The incident set off a wave of anger throughout the country. Last month the Rhodesians carried out a commando raid 45 miles inside Botswana...
...Rhodesian attacks were not bad enough, Botswana is also vulnerable to raids by South African security forces against any South African guerrillas who might be passing through Botswanan territory. Summing up this welter of problems, a ranking Botswanan official told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter: "Our future depends on whether sanity prevails in the region. If it doesn't, we may soon be in a position where all the parties say, 'He who is not with us is against...