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...shirttail amendment on the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Labeled Section 4(e), it provided that no U.S. citizen could be denied the vote through a literacy test if he could prove he had a sixth-grade education in any "American flag school"-including the Spanish-language schools in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where residents have long elected their own Governor and legislature...
...proportional representation. To broaden the government base even more, the Prime Minister will be required to consult with the opposition on such matters as key appointments in public service and the judiciary. Guyana, as the new nation will call itself, intends to remain a member of the British Commonwealth-and hopefully join the OAS family of hemisphere nations...
Customers Lost. Aware of this, Britain hopes to topple Rhodesia's Ian Smith with a sophisticated attack on the Rhodesian pound. The pound has been ordered to a kind of Commonwealth Coventry: Rhodesia's $60 million sterling account with the Bank of England has not been frozen, but new exchange controls prevent British businessmen from accepting Rhodesian pounds and force them to channel payments to Rhodesia into special accounts held up at the bank. The London capital market, on which Rhodesia's 2,700 tobacco farmers depend, has been barred to them. A nation whose economy...
Thus, in a pallid parody of the American Declaration of Independence, the white-supremacist regime of Rhodesia's Ian Smith finally made good its threats of two years, broke its ties with Commonwealth and Crown, and assumed its "sovereign independence...
...declaration had "borrowed, for the purpose of small and frightened men, words of one of the historic documents of human freedom," he charged Smith and his cronies with treason, a crime that is punishable by death. He broke off all relations with the regime, kicked it out of the Commonwealth, and appealed to police, civil servants and soldiers to disobey their "illegal government...