Word: zambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson that Britain would not add to the U.S. military burden in Southeast Asia by dismantling any of its own major bases east of Suez. Johnson, in turn, promised to support Britain's embargo on oil shipments to Rhodesia by offering U.S. aircraft to fly oil into landlocked Zambia during the crisis. Prime Minister Wilson was so cheered by his rapport with the President that he confided after the talks: "We are as close together as Churchill and Roosevelt ever were...
...long last, the British economic sanctions against Premier Ian Smith's white renegade regime began to be felt last week. Not in Rhodesia, however. In Zambia...
...sooner had British Prime Minister Harold Wilson called for a worldwide oil embargo against Rhodesia than Smith retaliated by cutting off all petroleum shipments to his black-ruled northern neighbor. The effect in Zambia was immediate. Gas stations closed. Cars coughed to a stop and were abandoned. A stringent emergency rationing system allowed each car owner less than a gallon a week. To conserve fuel, government offices eliminated the lunch hour, sent their auto-driving employees home in the middle of the afternoon instead...
Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, another moderate, was also displaying disturbing signs of irritation. For a month, he had been asking Britain to send troops across into Rhodesia to "protect" the Kariba power station, on the southern side of the Zambezi. Britain refused. Last week Kaunda announced that he would send his next request, if necessary, to Moscow...
...landlocked Zambia normally passes through Rhodesia-and Ian Smith's first response was to embargo it in turn. Both the U.S. and Britain had expected that. The R.A.F. was already preparing to airlift supplies to Zambia, and the U.S. promised to provide supplementary aircraft. From London, Wilson's Deputy Prime Minister George Brown telephoned both Kaunda and Nyerere, who agreed to the plan...