Word: white-supremacist
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...Pakistani fans nearly mobbed the referees, the players ridiculed the awards ceremony and roughed up a doctor at the doping tests, and eleven members of the team were forever banned from Olympic competition. Before the Games began, Black African nations, threatening a boycott, browbeat the I.O.C. into banning white-supremacist Rhodesia from participating. One supporter of the boycott threat was Uganda, which is currently exiling 55,000 of its Asian citizens...
...Olympiad in Munich, was potentially the most disruptive in the troubled 76-year history of the modern Games. The governments of eleven Black African nations, notably Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda, declared that they would not permit their countrymen to compete if the Games remained open to athletes from white-supremacist Rhodesia...
...commission's task was to determine whether or not Rhodesians favored an agreement worked out by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home to end the seven-year-old dispute over independence. The agreement called for British recognition of Smith's white-supremacist government and a snail's-pace apportionment of political power to Rhodesia's 5,000,000 blacks...
Facing that reality, Britain last week reached a compromise agreement with the breakaway white-supremacist government of Rhodesia. After six years of coaxing and outright pressure, including an economic embargo, London agreed to permit Rhodesia's return to colonial status just long enough to be granted official independence. It was the issue of independence, which Britain refused to grant until provision was made for some form of black majority rule, that led Premier Ian Smith to cut Rhodesia loose from its ties to Crown and Commonwealth six years ago with his unilateral declaration of independence...
That is undoubtedly true. So is Pretoria's contention that if a plebiscite was held, the vote would be overwhelming for continued South African rule. The whites are for it; the chiefs, who see its immediate benefits, are for it, and the tribesmen listen to the chiefs. Only outside force or the fall of South Africa's white-supremacist government could change the situation, and both are extremely remote possibilities...