Word: supremacists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever his motive, the results were positive both for his own reputation and for the morale of South Africa's voiceless millions. The white-supremacist regime of Hendrik Verwoerd had done what it could to limit Kennedy's impact. It imposed a five-year "ban" -social and political excommunication without stated cause or trial-on Ian Robertson, 21, head of the National Union of South African Students, who had first invited Kennedy to that country. It also barred foreign newsmen who wanted to accompany Kennedy on his four-day tour. The only government representatives he saw were policemen...
...What governor?" jeered Ian Smith at protests on Gibbs's behalf. Indeed, hardly had Smith seized independence for his white supremacist regime than he had taken it upon himself to fire Sir Humphrey, naming his own Deputy Premier as the Queen's new "official representative." Trouble was, Gibbs refused to be fired, and nothing Smith could do would budge him. "Her Majesty has asked me to continue in office," Sir Humphrey announced, "and I therefore remain your lawful Governor...
Thus, in a pallid parody of the American Declaration of Independence, the white-supremacist regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith finally made good its threats of two years, broke its ties with Commonwealth and Crown, and assumed its "sovereign independence...
...British Prime Minister had come to Rhodesia to try, somehow, to prevent the white-supremacist colonial regime of Ian Smith from seizing independence. It was as critical a mission as Wilson had ever undertaken. The United Nations had urged sanctions to starve the settlers out. Some African states were talking of leaving the Commonwealth. And Wilson himself had talked grimly of the "bloodbath" that might follow a unilateral declaration of independence. At home, where many Britons had blood ties with the settlers, he was under heavy fire to salvage some sort of solution, if only a delay that would prove...
Courting the Negroes. In a once militantly white-supremacist state, the candidate's moderation on racial issues is due in large part to Virginia's growing Negro electorate, now 200,000 strong, whose overwhelming support for Lyndon Johnson last year swung Virginia to a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1948. In November the G.O.P. will field the first Negro who has won his party's primary to run for the general assembly since the 1890s...