Word: supremacists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would last about ten years. A Royal Commission composed of Rhodesians would draft the necessary amendments, which would be submitted to "Rhodesians as a whole" for approval. In the meantime, censorship would be lifted, political prisoners freed and "normal" political activity permitted. The Rhodesian Parliament, whose hard-line white-supremacist majority might try to block the new constitution, would be dissolved and all legislative powers handed over to British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs, pending new parliamentary elections within four months. Smith himself would continue as interim Prime Minister, but half of a new "broad-based" Cabinet would be chosen from...
...gold supply, probably throw a million workers out of jobs and, in the opinion of many economists, force Britain finally to devalue the pound. Even so, Wilson promised Parliament before he left that he would not give in on the essential British demands: that Smith's white supremacist government return to British rule and prepare the way for eventual government by Rhodesia's black majority...
...Democrat Weltner, 38, the victory of White Supremacist Lester Maddox in Georgia's Democratic runoff primary last month signaled a crushing setback for racial moderation-and for the South. Rather than support Maddox for Governor in the November election, Weltner last week jettisoned his promising career in Congress...
...white supremacist regime seized in dependence last year only to forestall British attempts to give the land's over whelming African majority a hand in running the government. Therefore, agree all members of the Common wealth, the only way for Rhodesian blacks to gain true independence is for Britain to regain control...
Brother Jeff. Cool it was. In Grenada (pop. 7,914), a white supremacist stronghold that hitherto had been thought to be too tough for civil rights workers to crack, the Governor's dic tum received its clearest vindication. "We want Brother Jefferson Davis to know that the South he represented will never rise again," proclaimed Robert Green, 32, a march leader, as he stood astride the Davis memorial in the town square. "We want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With...