Word: zambesi
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When they are not drinking bitters at the Zambesi Club bar in London, the hearty-mannered young men in open-necked sports shirts spend most of their time carefully scanning the help-wanted ads. Right now there are few openings for their specialized skills. But they are sure that somewhere soon, most likely in Africa or the Middle East, they will find a fight that they will be paid to join. They are mercenary soldiers, members of a dwindling fraternity of adventurers who lay their lives on the line for money...
Since the country appeared completely calm, censorship seemed hardly necessary, but Smith did not stop there. To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...
...process all its own sugar by 1968. Rhodesian farmers have cleared 75,000 acres in the humid Hippo Valley lowlands of elephants, lions, buffalo and the tsetse fly in order to plant sugar. They still have not solved one problem: at night, hippopotamuses clomp out of the nearby Zambesi River, bed down on tender sugar shoots and crush them. Even the world's longtime sugar producers are working to fatten yields. Brazil, where sugar has grown in the north for 400 years, is converting many unprofitable coffee areas to sugar in the southern states of Rio de Janeiro...
When the great Kariba Dam on the Zambesi River was finished in 1959, every prospect about it was pleasing. Besides generating 1,500,000 kilowatts of power, the dam would create a lake 175 miles long where protein-starved black Rhodesians could catch fish and white Rhodesians could swim and sail. But Kariba Lake had hardly begun to fill with water when a vicious enemy showed its deceptively pretty face. A delicate, floating water fern named Salvinia auriculata appeared in patches that spread with astonishing speed. By last week dense mats, some of them strong enough to support...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* Films show wild-animal rescue operations during the building of the Kariba Dam on Africa's Zambesi River...