Word: supremacists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are suspected of too fervently supporting the black man's cause. Rhodesia has plans to turn over control of its 2,781 missionary-run primary schools-which constitute 95% of the country's elementary-education system -to semiliterate tribal chiefs. In the pay of the white-supremacist government, the chiefs can be counted on to make sure that the schools teach the secondary status of black men. South Africa's apartheid regime has reduced missionary visas from three years to one; in its protectorate of South West Africa, six of the seven U.S. Episcopal missionaries have...
Exclaimed Atlanta Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson: "The man was elected like a demagogue, but he spoke like a Governor!" Other longtime critics of Maddox remained skeptical that he could easily repudiate his white supremacist backers...
Died. François C. Erasmus, 70, South African politician, one of his country's fiercest supporters of anti-British, white-supremacist doctrines, who in 1952, as Minister of Defense, purged most of the military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...
...rebellion last year of Ian Smith's white supremacist regime was complicated by one fact: most of Rhodesia's 220,000 whites are of British stock. Had it been otherwise, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson would not have been afraid to use British troops against "our kith and kin." Nor would Smith, whose father emigrated from Scotland, have felt it necessary to declare Rhodesia's "continued allegiance" to the Queen-and keep the Union Jack flying. But family ties can go only so far. Last week Smith suggested that the last thin thread to London would soon...
Object of the sanctions was Ian Smith's white-supremacist regime in Rhodesia, which has been deplored as an international renegade ever since it broke away from British rule 13 months ago. By a vote of 11 to 0-with four abstentions-the council declared an international embargo on 90% of Rhodesia's exports, forbade the U.N.'s 122-member nations to sell oil, arms, motor vehicles or airplanes to the rebel territory or to provide it with any form of "financial or other economic...