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...years she has earned more than $100,000 annually; largely because of her audience appeal, the once measly purses on the women's tour are now nearly on a par with those paid to men. In 1973 feminist supporters everywhere applauded as she ran Bobby Riggs, the male supremacist, off the court. This year King and her husband are co-publishing a new magazine, womenSports...
Rhodesia's interests are even more vital. Rhodesia is entirely landlocked--and virtually all of its exports and imports go through the Mozambican port of Beira. With Mozambique in black hands, and more than likely to exclude white-supremacist governments from the use of its resources, Rhodesia would have to ship all of its exports and imports overland through South Africa before getting to a port--the trip would be five times as long...
...last several months, dockworkers in both Baltimore and Philadelphia have refused to unload Rhodesian goods, whose shipment directly violates a 1968 United Nations resolution ordering economic sanctions against that country and its white supremacist government. Rhodesia's population is 96 per cent black, but whitesby law control 50 of the 66 seats in Parliament, and 8 of those intended for blacks are appointed by the white government. The average wage of a black Rhodesian is one-tenth that of the white; the black African population is restricted mostly to menial jobs. In the countryside they toil as virtual slaves...
Several days later, the spokesman--named Eddison-talked about this work for the cause of African blacks against the white supremacist government in Rhodesia. From the deskchair in the study of his Cambridge apartment, he discussed the past in an almost-tired voice. In 1960, at the age of 24, he had helped found the National Democratic Party, then the most widespread effort to organize the African population against the ruling white minority. "We were a lawful party," he says, "but we operated on all levels, with a program for overthrowing the regime. We had an underground wing to carry...
India and other members expressed concern about the loss of special trading privileges through Britain's entry into the European Common Market. And African representatives again pressed Britain to take stronger steps to isolate two former colonies, white-supremacist South Africa and Rhodesia. But, all in all, there was never quite the slanging match that developed in Singapore over British plans to supply arms to South Africa...