Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want this new country to be a sham, a fraud, a hollow shell with the mere trappings of independence-a brand-new flag, sleek limousines, black faces in Parliament and the U.N. I do not want Zimbabwe ever to become another banana republic...
...keeping whites in Rhodesia: A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it. We are going to concentrate on a real prosperity for all. Some want us to regard these people who have been here for five generations as strangers because they are white. I would not want to be part of that meaningless independence. Ours will be an evolutionary process in which a black government will have to train itself, not in an emotional way and without causing friction...
...sponsoring a boycott of all products sold by United Brands, Inc, and its subsidiaries, including Chiquita Banana and Sun Harvest...
...James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel Hana-Maui, an island landmark...
Compton said independence is the key to strengthening the nation's economy as the independent government plans to institute a duty-free indistrial zone to encourage foreign investment and decrease dependency on the banana...