Word: stinkwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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