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...able to go its own way with remarkable success. Guerrilla movements were generally unable to mobilize the territory's 5.7 million blacks against the white-dominated government. Sanctions voted by Britain and the United Nations were largely ignored by countries that saw profits in Rhodesian tobacco, beef and chrome. But 18 months ago, a guerrilla movement called ZANU (for Zimbabwe African National Union) caught hold on the rich agricultural plateau overlooking the Zambezi valley in the north. Since then, a bitter guerrilla war has claimed nearly 500 lives...
What Good. The district's 13,000 white farmers, who raise cattle, corn and tobacco on prosperous large farms, have had to be resilient to stay on as long as they have, but many are now wavering. Reports Griggs: "I visited the farm of George Louw, a typical one planted mostly in tobacco. Louw is not his real name; several farmers who talked for publication have had their farms targeted for follow-up attacks. Louw was hit in early 1973. A ZANU squad sneaked up to the bedroom where he and his wife were asleep, and lobbed seven grenades...
Since the turn of the century, the sports that have attracted the masses have had the appeal of the unwritten contract: those who paid their way into the ballpark bought the right to be judge, jury, and hangman of the performers. The heroes chewed tobacco and prided themselves on looking fierce...
...past decade assumed was general "mutagenic" cancer, cancer of unknown cause, may actually have been asbestos-induced. Recent studies have indicated that smoking may greatly increase the neoplastic effects of asbestos, suggesting that the fibers are absorbing large amounts of benzo(a)pyrene, the primary carcinogenic component of tobacco. Water commissions are beginning to have problems with asbestos contamination of their supplies. The prognosis for future urban communities is disquieting. As long as there are no substitutes to stem the increasing use of asbestos, nothing short of a ban on the industrial use of the fiber will be able...
Woody Stephens started amassing his racing wisdom when he was 13. The son of a tobacco farmer in the hamlet of Midway, Ky., Stephens broke his first yearling in 1927, and a year later dropped out of high school to sign a five-year contract as an apprentice jockey. When he grew too big to ride, Stephens turned to training, scoring his first victory in 1940. His total involvement with all facets of racing includes even horse matchmaking-it was Stephens' idea to mate Bold Bidder and Queen Sucree in 1970. The product was named Cannonade. To this...