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Rhodesian Mew8<br />

tributes $700,000 a year to the school which <strong>will</strong> <strong>be</strong> cut-off as part<br />

of economic sanctjons, Without these funds many mem<strong>be</strong>rs of the<br />

faculty feeL the school could not function and should close, Both<br />

blacks and whites attend the college.<br />

The action of the U.N, Security council appealing for a world wide<br />

oil embargo met no strong rsaction in Salisbury, Faith in the Smith<br />

Gove,rnment seems to <strong>be</strong> growing,<br />

NOV~MBER t~ t<br />

The most aerious demonstratien against the Smith regime<br />

took in Bulawayo. The police fired into the air and used dogs<br />

to ,disperse the crawc3.s. The Africans set up a trash can barricade<br />

and threw rocks and tin cans at the police, A 24 hour.strike was<br />

called, but is was only 20% effective. No one was seriously injured,<br />

Press censorship has <strong>be</strong>en extende4 to include foreign <strong>news</strong>men, Press<br />

packet8 intended for Lifg? Magazine, Independent Televieion of Londen<br />

and the Rand Gaily Mail ~f Jshannesburg were seized at the airport<br />

in Bulawayo,<br />

Rhodesia,'.~ Minister sf Agriculture, Lord Graham, warned Britian<br />

that refusal to buy Rhodesian tsbacca was lacing Britian in the<br />

hancZs of the U.S. tobacco mon~ply. The statement was seen as an<br />

ex<strong>pr</strong>ession of concern over the tobacco boycott. Tobacco is the<br />

mainstay of tlae Rhodesian. economy, and British traders bought nearly<br />

half 05 it last year. Already entre<strong>pr</strong>eneurs fsom several ceuntries<br />

are at work to.buy the tobacce cheap%y and then make huge <strong>pr</strong>ofits<br />

by selling Ct in Amsterdarcr and other international markets under a<br />

false la<strong>be</strong>l, Britian has iarge stockpiles of Rhodesian tobacco and<br />

<strong>will</strong> not need U,S, tobacco for at least a year,<br />

Strikes continue throughout the country but have not <strong>be</strong>en crippling,<br />

Rhodesia Railways reported that the Africans are coming Uck to work.<br />

(Source: The New York ~imes)

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