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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Rhodesia
Rhodesia is the former name of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia in southern Africa, which was governed by a white minority until 1979.
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved on January 1, 1964 upon the independence of Malawi and Zambia.
Initially, the state maintained its loyalty to Queen Elizabeth II as 'Queen of Rhodesia' (a title to which she never consented) but not to her representative, the Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs, whose constitutional duties were exercised by an 'Officer Administering the Government', Clifford Dupont.
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 List of Presidents of Rhodesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page contains a list of officers administering the Government of Rhodesia from 1965 to 1970, and of presidents of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1979.
See also lists of incumbents, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, list of Presidents of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.
The Presidential Flag consisted of the full State Arms of Rhodesia placed in the center of a sky-blue flag.
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 List of Presidents of Zimbabwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page contains a list of presidents of Zimbabwe.
See also list of Presidents of Rhodesia and Rhodesia.
Canaan Banana was a "figurehead" president, but Mugabe has been an executive president, being head of government as well as head of state.
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 friendly dictators
President Carter tried to cut US ties to WACL, but Ronald Reagan received campaign funds from the group, and WACL became involved with training and supplying contras in Argentina and Taiwan.
President Reagan claimed Rios Montt was given "a bum rap" by human rights groups, and that he was cleaning up problems inherited from his predecessor, General Romeo Lucas Garcia.
Trujillo was finally assassinated by the CIA in 1961 after he attempted to have President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela murdered because of his criticism of Trujillo's brutal regime.
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 RHODESIAS SELOUS SCOUTS
Thus we find that a number of recent acts of ruthless violence in Rhodesia which were indeed committed by terrorists belonging either to the Nkomo or Mugabe wing of the so-called Patriotic Front have been consistently attributed to the Selous Scouts.
Adding to the barrage, Botswana claimed at the beginning of May that Rhodesia had been linked to the killing of two people and the wounding of 80 others when a Russian-made hand grenade was tossed on to a crowded dance floor in Francistown.
They work in remote parts of Rhodesia hunting down terrorist spoor and leading the infantry in for the kill if the invading group is too big for the small two or three man teams to handle on their own.
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Mwanawasa served as Vice President of Zambia from 1991 until 1994 when he resigned citing gross abuse of office and corruption by some leaders and insubordination to him by some colleagues.
Chiluba and several leaders in ZCTU were detained in 1981 by then President Kenneth Kaunda for calling a wildcat strike that paralyzed most of the Zambian economy.
Kenneth Kaunda, the first president of Zambia, was born on April 28, 1924 at Lubwa Mission.
www.thezambian.com /Government/presidents.aspx   (1126 words)

  
 Encyclopedia
In August 1973 President Nixon appointed Kissinger secretary of state; he was the first foreign-born citizen to hold this post.
When Ford succeeded Nixon as president a year later, Kissinger continued both as head of the National Security Council (until November 1975) and as secretary of state.
Henry Agard Wallace, the son of U.S. farming leader Henry Cantwell Wallace, was appointed secretary of agriculture by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in.
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 Rhodesia and Case-Javits
The principal Rhodesian objections to the Plan were that it involved the handing of complete authority o ver to a British general under the control of the enormously distrusted David Owen, and the dismantling of the Rhodesian armed forces in favor of a new defense establishment incorporating the relatively untrained guerrillas of the Patriotic Front.
The fact that Rhodesia's commit ment has not been tested in actual negotiations would seem to be the fault of Britain and the United States, who have decli n ed to convene such negotiations.
What has been cast in doubt, both in Rhodesia and among a growing number of critics outside Rhodesia, is the ability of both the Carter Administration as well as the Labor Government in Britain to give Rhodesia a fair heari ng.
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 Encyclopedia: Index
List of urban public parks and gardens of Hong Kong
List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
List of state Democratic Parties in the U.S. List of state leaders in 1593 BC
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 PEHI - Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions - Pilgrims Society membership list
She chaired the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1982 to 1990 and was a trustee of Southern Methodist University and the Smithsonian Institution.
President of the Germanistic Society of Columbia University in 1905-1906 and a director from 1908-1917.
President of the American branch of International Conciliation, an organization founded in 1905 by a Nobel peace laureate, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant (from an "old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades", whatever that means).
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 PEHI - Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions - Le Cercle membership list
He served in the government as president of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from January 1986 to June 1987 and as Secretary of State for Transport from June 1987 to July 1989.
Iliescu was the President of Romania for eleven years, from 1990 to 1996, and 2000 to 2004.
President of the Harvard College Board of Overseers; life trustee of the University of Chicago; one of the most important members of the Bilderberg committee; visitor of the Bohemian Grove Stowaway camp; member American-Australian Association; chairman Americas Society 1981-1992; chairman Rockefeller Group 1981-1995.
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 Commonwealth of Nations - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has used the term frequently to allege that the Commonwealth's attempts to catalyse political changes in his country is motivated by racism and colonialist attitudes and that the White Commonwealth dominates the Commonwealth of Nations as a whole.
Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony was admitted in 1995 on the back of the triumphal re-admission of South Africa and Mozambique's first democratic elections, held in 1994.
The main decision-making forum of the organisation is the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), where Commonwealth presidents or prime ministers assemble for several days to discuss matters of mutual interest.
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 Friendly Western Allies
Below these comments is list of Dictators linked to a report on each...
He was President Roosevelt's hand picked dictator to counteract leftists who had overthrown strongman Cerardo Machado.
In 1961, Brazilian President Jaao Goullart sought to trade with communist nations, supported the labor movement, and had limited the profits multi-nationals could take out of the country.
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 Rhodesia's Selous Scouts
After all, we are fighting a progressive war which is aimed at mobilising all the democratic forces capable of lending support to the Revolution and all along we have been working very harmoniously with all the church organisations.
Coupled with these accusations against the Selous Scouts were "authoritiative" reports by leftist journalist David Martin and a deserter from the Rhodesian forces who peddled his story in London.
The emphasis is on bush survival and in order to survive for many days at a time if necessary, the men must be able to recognise and make use of whatever vegatation, birds, animals and insects the bush has to offer.
www.rhodesia.nl /sscouts.htm   (3414 words)

  
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President George W. Bush will wrap up conferring with his economic team on Friday on ways to keep the economy growing against a backdrop of higher interest rates, mixed data and fears of rising inflation.) (Reuters, August 17, 2006.
The head of the London Stock Exchange publicly warned the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, that his recent decision to bar the head of a large equity fund from that country could send "a very negative signal" to the world's equity markets.) (July 5, 2006.
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev release statements that the cold war is coming to an end.
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 Anti-personnel Landmines - Friend or Foe? : a study of the military use and effectiveness of anti-personnel mines
The rest were intended as barriers against guerrilla infiltration during the war of liberation, beginning in 1974, and stretch from the National Parks west of Victoria Falls to Mlibizi and from Kanyemba along the Mozambican border to near the South African border.
In the former Rhodesia, border minefields which were originally laid in a belt 25 m wide were breached by infiltrators using shovels in about two hours.
When the Kariba power station in Rhodesia was not also protected by observation and direct fire, saboteurs simply shovelled their way across the minefield, did their damage and left.
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 Time Line Maker
In Northern Rhodesia the Governor, Sir Arthur Benson, bans the A.N.C. Monckton Commission appointed to consider future of the Federation, and visits all three territories.
Rhodesia's' Appeal Court dismissed the appeal of three Africans convicted of brutal murder, as it had been decided that the Rhodesian Government was the de facto Government, and there was no right of Appeal to the Privy Council, under the 1965 Constitution.
Rhodesia officially governed by an Executive Council, with Ian Smith, Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Jeremiah Chirau alternating chairmanship.
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 Discussion: You Can’t Handle the Truth -- In These Times
As the president declared war on international law, CNN and other channels did not refer to George W. Bush by name: that might have reminded people of the all too frail humanity of the inarticulate Alfred E. Newman figure with perplexed, furrowed brows… return to article
On and on the list goes on of the violations of the trust of the American People by their government.
Posted by Dan McCormick on Mar 24, 2003 at 4:49 PM Hodson writes: “The terror attacks were staged by top level Zionists in the Bush administratio (CIA and FBI) with the help of the Mossad and others in the military and armaments industries.
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 South African Libraries and Archives on the Internet
Their constitution notes that "equitable and unrestricted access to basic information, including government produced information, is a fundamental right in a democratic society;..." Has a members discussion list; subscribe at this URL: http://www.sabinet.co.za/cgi-bin/majordomo?liasaonline:mail.sabinet.co.za Based in Pretoria.
The SAL is the national reference library and "the national preservation library for all South African legal deposit publications (including de luxe editions) and rare or unique material." Search the online catalog of publications acquired by the various South African legal deposit libraries.
Lists the e-mail addresses of the library staff and includes a history of the library which notes that the Steve Biko Letters and Lennox Papers are held in their Africana collection (the Howard Pim Library).
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/rsalibs.html   (2703 words)

  
 Foreign Policy Association: Discussion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Sani Abacha is a corrupt and repressive dictator in the oil-rich country of Nigeria.
Rafael Leonidas TRUJILLO, President of the Dominican Republic...
Trujillo was finally assassinated by the BigBrother in 1961 after he attempted to have President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela murdered because of his criticism of Trujillo's brutal regime.
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 Famous  Friends of America
Straight from the horse's mouth, here's a brief history of the relationship between Baghdad and Washington.
And here is an incomplete list of the many miscreants who, in spite of their imperfections, have had a friend in America:
General Sani Abacha is a corrupt and repressive dictator in the oil-rich country of Nigeria.
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 The Zimbabwe Situation
EU Council Decision 2005/592 of 29 July 2005 implementing Commission Regulation No 2004/161/CFSP updated the list of Zimbabweans subject to a travel ban and assets freeze in response to the continuation of Operation "Restore Order".
This publication of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") is designed as a reference tool providing actual notice of actions by OFAC with respect to Specially Designated Nationals and other entities whose property is blocked, to assist the public in complying with the various sanctions programs administered by OFAC.
Entities and individuals on the list are occasionally licensed by OFAC to transact business with U.S. persons in anticipation of removal from the list or because of foreign policy considerations in unique circumstances.
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 Political Leaders: Rhodesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
Note: The colony of Southern Rhodesia declared unilaterally the independence from Great Britain as Rhodesia on 11 Nov 1965, after being part of a Federation with Northern Rhodesia (then Zambia) and Nyasaland (then Malawi) from 1 Aug 1953 to 31 Dec 1963.
The Republic was proclaimed on 2 Mar 1970.
The Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia existed from 1 June 1979 to 12 Dec 1979, when the country returned to colonial status.
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 The MANPADS Menace: Combating the Threat to Global Aviation from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems
The following is a partial list of reported incidents involving civilian aircraft.
This list includes one additional example of an incident subsequent to the 2003 Department of State estimate, in which a civilian aircraft was shot at by non-state actors using MANPADS.
A Dassault Mystere-Falcon 50 executive jet carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi and its French flight crew was shot down over Kigali, killing all aboard and sparking massive ethnic violence and regional conflict.
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A chronology of Brontë's readings and literary activities and an appendix listing the library locations of many of her widely scattered letters is provided.
Although many of these articles were indeed harsh in their treatment of the Jews, Diderot's thinking evolves to reveal a genuine regard for this group.
It contains a list of three hundred francophone women directors from all over the world, and the titles of their films.
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 south bay area politics classifieds and want ads - craigslist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-01)
The military insisted he was not on any of their lists of prisoners.
President Bush has admitted that he gave orders that allowed the NSA to eavesdrop on a small number of Americans without the usual requisite warrants.
Vice President Cheney refused to release the notes and attendees of his energy Plan to the Supreme Court, claiming "executive privilege" and protection of "national security." All of this to protect corporate power.
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 World Almanac for Kids
The German government initiated armistice talks (October) with the Allies, but they failed when President Wilson insisted on negotiating only with democratic governments.
When the armistice was signed in Europe in 1918, the troops in German East Africa were still fighting, even though most of the colony was in the hands of the Allies.
The defeated Central Powers declared their acceptance of President Wilson’s 14 points as the basis for the armistice and expected the Allies to utilize the principles of the 14 points as the foundation for the peace treaties.
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 Nick Price - Media Guide
Finished No. 125 on the final season money list to retain full playing privileges for the 23rd consecutive season...Best effort was a T6 at the EDS Byron Nelson Championship, thanks to a closing 67.
He was one of five past champions to finish in the top-10 in Dallas...Named as recipient of the 2005 Bob Jones Award by the USGA, given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.
Runner-up finish moved him to the top spot on the EDS Byron Nelson Championship money list, with $1,464,808...Third top-five in four starts was a T5 at the U.S. Open...In his next start two weeks later, finished second to David Toms at the FedEx St. Jude Classic.
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