Word: udi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it might give Smith a chance to back out of his agreement. Twice before ? in talks with Harold Wilson aboard the Royal Navy ships H.M.S. Tiger in 1966 and H.M.S. Fearless in 1968 ? Smith had seemingly agreed to end Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). But then he returned to Salisbury "to consult my colleagues," and changed his mind. He actually initialed an agreement for ultimate majority rule in 1971, but a British commission went to Rhodesia in early 1972 and decided that the proposal was unacceptable to black Rhodesians. This time the pressure on Smith...
...most of the eleven years since UDI, Rhodesia had survived surprisingly well as an international outcast. Dozens of international firms, as well as a number of countries, continued to do business with it despite U.N. sanctions; since the passage of the Byrd Amendment in 1972, U.S. firms had been buying Rhodesian chrome in open defiance...
...Smith's white countrymen hold him responsible for what is happening to Rhodesia. "There is a widespread feeling," says a local mining executive, "that, in retrospect, UDI was a waste of time, money and lives. If we had settled for a gradual transition eleven years ago and Smith had started to train black successors back then, we would not face such a problem now." But a few hardliners, like Leonard Idensohn, who heads the small, far-right Rhodesia National Party, criticize him for giving in now. "Smith and his 49 traitors in Parliament have sold us down the river," says...
...M.I.T. teams was not exceptional, but Ming and Chan were. Holding their paddles like most Oriental players do. Ming and Chan vollied for nearly three minutes without missing the table. "God, they're good." said Udi Gupta, a contender for the West Bengal Jr. table tennis title...