Word: zambezi
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...will stand in six to twelve months." In the meantime, according to diplomatic observers, Vorst laid it on the line to Ian Smith: unless Smith would work actively toward achieving a Rhodesian settlement South Africa would consider withdrawing its antiguerrilla police, who help the Rhodesians maintain order along the Zambezi River boundary between Rhodesia and Zambia...
...white-dominated government. Sanctions voted by Britain and the United Nations were largely ignored by countries that saw profits in Rhodesian tobacco, beef and chrome. But 18 months ago, a guerrilla movement called ZANU (for Zimbabwe African National Union) caught hold on the rich agricultural plateau overlooking the Zambezi valley in the north. Since then, a bitter guerrilla war has claimed nearly 500 lives...
...Zambezi River is a traditional -and usually tranquil-dividing line between black-ruled and white-ruled Africa. In the past two months, however, the muddy, snaking river that separates Zambia from Rhodesia has become something of a war zone. Its banks are studded on both sides with mines, its waters are patrolled by Zambian and Rhodesian gunboats, and gunfire echoes sporadically along its 400-mile border section...
...Lierop: Cabera Bassa. Remember those two words. Cabora Bassa is a proposed hydroelectric dam that the Portuguese are going to build in Teti province along the Zambezi River...
Militarily, the Portuguese and South Africans vowed that no Africans would be allowed to cross the Zambezi River. Yet last year, while I was inside Mozambique. I monitored a South African radio report which admitted that Frelimo had crossed the River in force and that the Portuguese could not get them out. While we were there, President Banda of Malawi, one of the great traitors to the African people, was scheduled to visit the Cabora Bassa construction site. Comes the day when Banda is supposed to land at Cabora Bassa, Radio South Africa was shocked to admit that his helicopter...