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...Geneva conference grinds on, the tempo of fighting in Rhodesia is stepping up. Last month was the bloodiest in the four-year war between black nationalists and Ian Smith's white-settler regime. The toll: more than 300 dead, including 181 guerrillas, 20 Rhodesian "troopies," twelve white and 88 black civilians. Nearly 100 others have been killed in early November. One major guerrilla goal has been to cut Rhodesia's rail and road links with South Africa-vital conduits for the fuel and ammunition that Salisbury needs. To assess the threat, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs accompanied...
...going to be attacked by black leaders if they don't come down on the right side." While conceding that it was not slavery that weakened the structure of black families, the Moynihan advocates say that post-1925 migration to the north and urbanization took a terrible toll, and that Moynihan's characterization of the black family today remains essentially correct. Says Moynihan: "Gutman's thesis does not centrally affect...
...there is a toll. Says Kate: "I've stopped smoking and drinking and staying out late. My love life ain't what it used to be. I've just got to discipline myself or the work would just kill...
Even as the delegates in Geneva were conferring, in Rhodesia the guerrilla war against the whites intensified, presumably to demonstrate black nationalist military strength as a bargaining lever. October was the bloodiest month in the nearly four years of fighting, with a death toll of 181 guerrillas, 20 security-force soldiers, twelve white and 88 black civilians. At a dozen points along the border, Mozambique-based guerrillas fired rockets and mortars at white settlements inside Rhodesia. From Zambian bases, other guerrillas attacked a motel in the tourist center of Victoria Falls, killing one white guest and wounding two others...
Smith's media campaign consists of a four-page pamphlet that he put together himself for his '74 campaign. The toll of running then, in what Smith called a "hotly contested" race, came from emotional anxiety rather than Smith's wallet. He took on five opponents and spent only...