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Show 24 A The halt Lake Tribune, Sunday, February 18, 1373 Hints of Things To Come 'Year of Africa Looms as Ominous Possibility t Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith recently tried to force neighboring Zambia to on guerrilla crack down sanctuaries. Underscoring his demand, he closed the frontier to commerce on which Zambia By William R. Frye UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -The year 19711 has been billed in Washington as the year of No Europe. doubt it will be that. But from present signs, it may also be the year of Africa. On three rtant the Zambian economy. But a U.N. team has been sent to Africa jo lay the basis for international help. Instead of knuckling under, Zambia absorbed the blow, knowing the border closing would also hurt Rhodesia. And when Smith reopened the border, Zambia kept it closed. Without outside help in re- 1 Thus the net effect of the confrontation mky be a tightening of routing commerce, this Zambiat-Rhodesi- defiant gesture could shatter heavily depended. .oophole Closed? a the U.N.s porous economic sanctions against Rhodesia. Whereas Zambia had previously been a loophole, that loophole may now have been closed. Meanwhile there is continu- (Copyright v 1973 Wllllom R. Frye) V V T f amil: KETCHUM'S OPEN SUNDAY it STARS Everything For The Builder 6 4th So. 7th West ing guerrilla pressure on Rhodesia to renegotiate with Brit i&83EOiJ3E j 9 A.M.-- 4 P.M. 355-465- i fedtsuesliscs, at least o ain (and with Rhodesias blacks) a peaceful transition to majority rule. This pressure seems likely to intensify. 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