Word: zambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhodesia has been equally ineffective in keeping oil from its black northern neighbor, Zambia, which until December had been totally dependent on Rhodesian Railways to haul its petroleum supplies from Mozambique ports...
...worst is still to come for Rhodesia. The decline in demand induced by the trade embargoes has forced manufacturers to lay off workers and the credit squeeze has forced small retailers out of business. British Prime Minister Wilson and Dr. Kaunda of Zambia have kept their most effective weapon in reserve. They could still halt all trade between Rhodesia and neighboring Zambia, a measure which would do serious damage to Rhodesia's secondary industry and her foreign exchange position...
...emphasize its position as a pace-setting copper producer or because of some genteel arrangement whereby it drew the task of moving first, Union had decided on a price hike. Within two days, companies in two other large copper-producing countries, Chile (560,000 tons annually) and Zambia (750,000 tons annually) upped their price to 42? also. Smaller copper countries followed suit, and last week the 40 increase had settled fitfully on the copper industry...
...copper than is being mined. And as it has in many other fields (see U.S. BUSINESS), the Viet Nam war has been making additional demands on the already strained copper supply. The supply is also being threatened by strikes in Chile, the possibility that Rhodesia will cut off neighbor Zambia's supply routes and, as ever, the unsure state of Congo politics. Such a sellers' market was too much to resist for Chile, Zambia and the Congo, all of whose developing economies are largely based on the metal...
Committed to save Zambia's economy, Wilson ordered an airlift of oil from Dar es Salaam, and soon five R.A.F. Britannias began flying in from the Tanzania port. The U.S. and Canada announced that they would help out with an airlift of their own. The Great North Road, a part dirt, part asphalt strip that links Lusaka with the east coast at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, groaned under the heavy loads of trucks...