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Since the country appeared completely calm, censorship seemed hardly necessary, but Smith did not stop there. To protect Rhodesia against an imagined invasion, convoys of troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...
...Pioneer Column. Rhodes got to him in 1888. In return for a promise to keep all other white marauders out of Zambesia, the King affixed his official elephant seal to a document awarding Rhodes's British South Africa Co. the right to dig for gold. Rhodes rushed off to London, passed off the agreement as authority to take possession of the land, and wangled a charter to administer it in the name of the Crown...
...column marched 400 miles northward, formally took possession of King Lobengula's vassal state of Mashonaland, and began staking out their plots. The old King was dismayed. "I thought you came to dig gold," he wrote the British South Africa Co.'s board of directors, "but it seems you have come to rob me of my people and my country as well...
...boys dig Anne, Man! She's the most!" bounced Bandleader Meyer Davis in a ditty to come out by, as Anne Ford, 22, youngest daughter of Henry Ford II, made her debut four years ago. For the last few months the boy that Anne's been digging the most is ur bane Wall Street Stockbroker Giancarlo Uzielli, 31, whose mother is a Rothschild. Gianni has been seeking a Vatican annulment of his first marriage to French beauty Anne-Marie Deschodt, now wed to nouvelle vague Film Director Louis Malle. Though both are Catholics, Anne and Gianni have decided...
...Question. The best of the Globe staff started to dig. The paper's two Washington men began to test Capitol Hill willingness to resist the nomination. The Atlanta Journal was asked and agreed to track down details at the Georgia end of the trail. All the while, the Globe scrupulously printed every bit of pro-Morrissey news-but there was no question what the paper really wanted...