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Article: Zambia's Airline Finds a Niche in Sanctions Against S. Africa
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 30, 1988
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When Congress imposed sanctions that canceled landing rights in
the United States for South African Airways, the airline told its
customers: "Don't worry. We're still flying high."
South Africa's national airline bragged in a newspaper
advertisement that it would bust American sanctions "thanks to our
friendly association with our colleagues."
Nearly two years later, in an irony of the international effort
to isolate the white minority that rules South Africa, the
"colleague" that is making it possible for South Africans to fly
almost direct to New York is Zambia Airways, national carrier of a
black-ruled nation.
Zambia, long one of Pretoria's most vocal critics and an
occasional target ...