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...Avail. The meeting was dubbed the "stinkwood summit" because it took place around a table made of polished South African stinkwood. Its purpose was to set a time and place for negotiations that would pave the way for black majority rule. It floundered because Smith and most of his 273,000 fellow white Rhodesians do not want to yield power. In a surprise development, South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrived at the falls-Vorster to put pressure on the whites and Kaunda on the blacks to reach a compromise. Both men were concerned that...
...council leaders temporary immunity, explaining: "It would involve people who are well-known terrorist leaders and bear the responsibility for murders and other atrocities." Technically, of course, the A.N.C. leaders had not entered Rhodesia for last week's meeting, since they sat on the Zambian side of the stinkwood table...
...South African whites who fearfully cling to Verwoerd's white supremacy policies in the face of Africa's "black wave of freedom," the firm expectation is that Verwoerd will win handily. His National Party has an excellent chance of increasing its already absolute majority in the stinkwood-paneled chamber of South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town. The three opposition parties are weak and divided; the timing of the elections is felicitous for Verwoerd...
Addressing his all-white Parliament in Cape Town in its chamber paneled in stinkwood, Verwoerd described his London trip as a "triumph." and blandly suggested that Macmillan's "strong words" against apartheid had been merely a gesture that Macmillan had been obliged to make in deference to Britain's "quite wrong" policies in its African colonies. What seemed to rankle most was Macmillan's line about the South African flag. Actually, cried Verwoerd. the flag would only be at half-mast if "we had chosen self-destruction and mass suicide." As it was, with South Africa established...
Wartime rookies in the Coldstream Guards are crushed into shape by kipper-complexioned, one-eyed Sergeant Bill Nelson, whose arms are "gnarled as old salami," whose fists protrude "like mallets of black stinkwood," and who sounds off to new recruits like one of Mark Twain's brawny scrappers in Life on the Mississippi...
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