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...Southern Rhodesia need be afraid that what has happened in the Congo could possibly happen here." So said Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead at the height of the Congo crisis. Whitehead was no prophet...
...trouble began in the capital city of Salisbury. Swooping down on the offices of the African National Democratic Party, Whitehead's security police raided the party's files, later arrested three of the party's top leaders. Explained Whitehead: "The policies of the N.D.P. are blatantly militant and anti-European." Whitehead's action needed no explanation. His United Federal Party holds only a shaky two-vote majority in the Southern Rhodesian Parliament over the extreme rightist Dominion Party,' which has been urging that Southern Rhodesia break up the Central African Federation by abandoning its ties...
Place of Slaughter. But Whitehead's get-tough policy did not silence Salisbury's 175,000 Africans. From the black ghetto of Highfield, 5,000 Africans marched on the police station demanding that they be arrested as were the N.D.P. leaders. Next day a mass strike crippled Salisbury as 20,000 Africans descended on Whitehead's office in the city center. When the mob refused to disperse, the police lobbed tear-gas shells into their midst, scattering them in all directions...
...Whitehead, hoping to prevent a repetition of the rioting, banned all political meetings for the next three months. But even some of Whitehead's own supporters admitted that he had badly miscalculated the mood and temper of Southern Rhodesia's Africans. From London, ex-Prime Minister Garfield Todd demanded that Britain suspend Southern Rhodesia's constitution, send in troops to enforce a change toward more liberal government. But this appeal outraged even Todd's own Central African Party, which promptly ousted him from leadership, probably ending the political effectiveness of the one major Southern Rhodesian leader...
Wang has developed a new method of programming information for his two computers, affectionately known as "704" and "Stretch." Stretch, for example, solved the first 376 theorems of the Principla Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertram Russell, fed to it in code form, in nine minutes--it had taken Wang seven hours to code them...