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...Importing Rhodesian Products supports a Racist Government," the leaflet pronounced in large letters. "Refuse to Unload Rhodesian Goods!" According to the American Friends Service Committee, the African Liberation Support Group, and the other organizations which had set up the demonstration, the Sun carried goods exported from Rhodesia. The picketers had come out so early this bright morning to urge the dockworkers to refuse to unload the ship and to support an international boycott against goods from Rhodesia...
...last several months, dockworkers in both Baltimore and Philadelphia have refused to unload Rhodesian goods, whose shipment directly violates a 1968 United Nations resolution ordering economic sanctions against that country and its white supremacist government. Rhodesia's population is 96 per cent black, but whitesby law control 50 of the 66 seats in Parliament, and 8 of those intended for blacks are appointed by the white government. The average wage of a black Rhodesian is one-tenth that of the white; the black African population is restricted mostly to menial jobs. In the countryside they toil as virtual slaves...
...United States, Portugal and South Africa are the three countries that import Rhodesian goods in violation of the U.N. resolution. The U.S. originally voted in favor of the sanctions, but pressure soon mounted from American steel producers who preferred Rhodesia's low-priced chrome to the inflated prices they then paid for the Soviet Union's shipments. Finally, in 1971, Congress relented to the pressure. Under the Byrd Amendment to the 1972 Procurement Authorization Act, the U.S. can import Rhodesian goods designated as "strategic" in importance. The amendment originally allowed for importing chrome alone, but the strategic definition has since...
While still in prison, Eddison received a law degree through correspondence with the University of London. Upon his release in 1971 and after extended pleas to the government, he became one of seven black Rhodesian lawyers in a profession numbering...
Eddison has vivid memories of the struggle of the Rhodesian guerrilla forces. They fought their first battle with the regime in 1966, and in the next three years there was widespread fighting across northern Rhodesia. After a several-year lag in the fighting, the liberation troops resumed the offensive, directing their efforts primarily against white farmers and forcing many of them to abandon their farms and move to the cities...