Word: wina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smugglers' tactic that Kassanda finds hardest to handle is the use of what he calls the "secret cavities" of the human body. Three weeks ago, he caught six smugglers - four men and two women - loaded with diamonds privately concealed. So it was that last week one John Wina was asked to bend over and submit to the routine check when he showed up in Kinshasa fresh from the mining country. The law's probing finger produced six capsules of white diamonds. Kassanda's cops some how felt they had missed a carat or two. Over Wina...
...British South Africa's mineral rights along with the Union Jack. Accepting the inevitable, the company agreed to turn over its rights to the new government, but held out for fair compensation. When the British government failed in its efforts to arrange a settlement, Zambian Finance Minister Arthur Wina angrily flew home, threatening to cancel all mineral rights immediately after independence...