Word: white-supremacist
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...government's emergency powers (TIME, March 19). Until his detention, Niesewand had been a protean freelance, representing the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, U.P.I., Agence France-Presse and a number of London and South African papers. His determined digging into Rhodesian affairs consistently angered Smith's white-supremacist government. Under unaccustomed fire from the Rhodesian press, officials promised to "review" the detention order. Late last week, Niesewand was released and immediately deported-an act that turned the reporter's personal triumph into professional defeat...
...nation," Monday Clubbers have, among other causes, protested the dropping of Rule, Britannia from BBC concerts in London's Royal Albert Hall and ardently supported the loyalists of Ulster. But the club's warmest concerns have been to rally support for Ian Smith's breakaway white-supremacist regime in Rhodesia and to argue against immigration of blacks and Asians to Britain from Commonwealth countries...
...second end, Whitlam backed U.N. resolutions against white-supremacist Rhodesia and South Africa and banned visits to Australia by segregated athletic teams. Perhaps more significantly, Whitlam abruptly abolished the "white Australia" policy that had long discriminated against colored immigrants. He also took steps to improve the lot of Australia's own long-abused aborigines; among other things, he acknowledged aboriginal claims to ancient tribal lands...
...Order. Niesewand has looked after his wife well enough, but for the past month he has been in jail under an order signed by Lardner-Burke. The vague grounds: the freelance reporter was "likely to commit acts prejudicial to public safety or public order." Free translation: the white-supremacist government of Ian Smith did not like what Niesewand had been writing, and has the dictatorial powers to squelch...
...start talks with the Chinese in Paris aimed at establishing diplomatic relations with Peking. Now the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations was directed to back moves for a neutralized zone in the Indian Ocean. He was also told to reverse field and support Third World resolutions against white-supremacist Rhodesia. A Rhodesian information of fice in Sydney was ordered shut down. South Africa was told that sporting teams selected along racial lines would not be allowed into Australia, not even as transients en route to other countries. At a press conference, Whitlam said that he favored "a more independent...