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...reviews. Says he: "We've had a damned good year." Among 203 bills signed into law since January, Moore is particularly proud of the $21 billion economic stimulus package, the creation of the new Department of Energy, the minimum wage bill and the ban on the purchase of Rhodesian chrome. His preoccupation of the moment is the energy bill, for which he lobbied in a series of private sessions last week with House and Senate conferees. "There's a good chance we'll get a bill before Christmas," he predicts...
...years ago, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith vowed that one-man, one-vote majority rule would not come to his country-where blacks now outnumber whites by 24 to 1-"in 1,000 years." But last week, in the Rhodesian city of Bulawayo, Smith changed his tune. As a starting point for negotiations with moderate black nationalist leaders living inside the country, he declared, he was now prepared to concede the principle of majority rule, based on universal adult suffrage. In return, he expected some sort of constitutional guarantees for whites under a future black government...
...band of bargain hunters seeking a cheap way to live in a style they could not afford anywhere else. Despite the disruptions brought on by the war, they find Rhodesia disarmingly serene-no more troubled than other countries with rural insurgencies, including Viet Nam in the early '60s. Rhodesian products, notably the excellent $1.50 steaks, remain cheap by world standards. Houses and rich farm property are available at fire-sale prices. One foreign resident in Salisbury just paid $42,000 for a six-bedroom house on two acres, complete with pool, tennis court and sauna...
...monthly earned in such critically labor-short industries as mining and engineering. Mining jobs are available to immigrants who can produce proof of having worked only 200 shaft hours. Such alien adventurers are often as undesirable as redneck mercenaries. Says one supervisor at a Rhodesian iron mine: "It's easy work. The niggers dig all the holes. You just stand over them...
Perhaps the best-known new Rhodesian is Robin Moore, author of The Green Berets and French Connection. He became an ardent defender of the white Rhodesian cause when he bought a house in Salisbury last year, and has cast himself in the role of "unofficial ambassador" for the American community. "I don't doubt that a lot of these types are the wrong people coming in for the wrong reasons," Moore said last week. "But some of them will permanently affect what happens to this place...