Word: swaziland
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...students are still detained under draconian security laws, and at least 1,000 others face trial on such catchall charges as causing public violence. Perhaps another 1,000 students, fearing further police pressure in the form of post-midnight security sweeps, have fled South Africa for neighboring Botswana and Swaziland...
...accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled longer (though only since 1967 as the head of an independent state...
...Transkei government, sent invitations to most countries of the world, only to receive formal rejections or silence. He is still hoping that conservative regimes in Taiwan, Paraguay, Malawi, Rhodesia and perhaps Ivory Coast may send delegations-but that will be about all. Even his nearest neighbors are shunning him. Swaziland says it will "continue to recognize the Transkei as a region of South Africa and nothing more," and Lesotho (which is surrounded by South Africa but, like Swaziland, was never part of it) has decided that the Transkei does not appear to "meet the requirements" of an independent state. Even...
...TIME, April 12)-enriched South African uranium. There was also a diplomatic dividend. Largely because of Arab pressure, 29 of the 33 black African countries that once had diplomatic ties with Israel broke them off at the time of the 1973 Middle East war (only Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius and Swaziland retain such ties). South Africa, said one Israeli diplomat, gives his country an entry to the rest of Africa: "We reach there not through the black door but through the back door...
...KING OF SWAZILAND. Sobhuza II, "the Lion of Swaziland," now 74, is indisputably the most powerful of all the kings of Africa. Since winning independence from Britain in 1968, Sobhuza has ruled as a constitutional monarch. Annoyed by his country's British-imposed constitution, he abolished the document earlier this year and transformed the Prime Minister and Cabinet into what he calls the King's Council. He also abolished all political parties, banned political meetings and announced that he would rule by decree. From his 400,000 subjects came not a murmur of protest, not even when...