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Unwilling even to consider such heresy, White Supremacist Ian Smith has been marching rowdily toward the point of no return: unilateral declaration of independence (UDI), the likes of which Britain has not faced since 1776. As Rhodesians prepared for the showdown, they got a crackdown instead. Tipped off by Smith's brusque refusal to discuss the situation in London last week, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent his Rhodesian colleague a memorandum warning direly that UDI would be "treasonable," an "open act of defiance and rebellion" that would bring swift reprisal by Britain...
...swarm of clucking poules, from the $5 girls who hang out at the railway station to the $50 streetwalkers of the Rue Halévy. After a night in the violon (clink), the poules were warned to make themselves scarce. A bistro proprietor was gloomy about the police crackdown. "You watch," he said. "When the maquereaux run out of money, they'll take to robbing villas. It's better for Nice to have idle pimps than active robbers." He knew his maquereaux. No sooner were the poules off the street than a Paris industrialist on holiday in Cannes...
...cult of university autonomy is so strong in Latin America that the Venezuelan government is reluctant to put the campus under ordinary law. But it is trying to do something about students obviously uninterested in learning. Last month the University Council began a crackdown, adopting a "repeater's rule," which expels any engineering student failing two subjects twice or one subject three times. Rector Jesus María Bianco thinks that the reform, modest though it seems, is long overdue. And he intends to make it stick...
...main island would be "reallocated." Also nationalized were the shops and houses of Stone Town, from the tops of their Moorish-styled roofs to their brass-studded mahogany doors. All of this could only please the black majority on whom Karume bases his popularity. Equally pleasing was his crackdown on those bastions of squash and snobbery, the clubs. Visiting British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys was sipping tea in the English Club at the very moment Karume nationalized it and all other "racial" clubs. Was Sandys affronted? Hardly. Said he: "I do not think anything would surprise me very much...
...Stadium. If the latest crackdown follows form, it will not leave the slightest dent in alcoholism. An 18% price increase in vodka last November and the gradual introduction of wine and beer have had no effect on consumption of stronger stuff. Instead, said one journalist, beer is now "considered a supplement to the normal vodka ration." Other measures to cut down drinking have proved just as hopeless. One town used its "corkage" taxes from vodka sales to build a sports stadium, apparently thinking the lure of sports would take people's minds off liquor. The populace flocked eagerly...