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Died. Rupert Fothergill, 62, Rhodesian game ranger who headed "Operation Noah," a five-year (1959-63) rescue effort that saved more than 6,000 warthogs, monkeys, snakes, lions, elephants, rhinos and other wild beasts from the rising waters of a man-made lake behind the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River; of a heart attack; in Salisbury, Rhodesia...
...picketers urged a boycott of the speech by Kenneth H. Towsey, director of the Rhodesian government's information office in Washington, because of Rhodesia's "racist policies...
...Harvard Law School Forum Wednesday night cancelled a speech by an official of the Rhodesian government after only four people paid for admission to hear the speech at Langdell Hall, while 60 anti-Rhodesian picketers protested outside...
John W. Foster, president of the Law School Forum, said that Wednesday night the Forum's invitation to Towsey did not constitute an endorsement of him or of the Rhodesian government's policies...
Died. Herbert Chitepo, 51, chairman of the Zimbabwe African National Union, a black Rhodesian freedom movement; in a land mine explosion as he backed out of his garage; in Lusaka, Zambia. In 1954 Chitepo became Rhodesia's first black lawyer (a special law was required to allow him to occupy chambers with white colleagues). An organizer of the Rhodesian African Nationalist movement, Chitepo went into exile after the movement was banned. His murder shadows efforts toward black-white detente in southern Africa...