The hottest cargo that any ship can carry these days is oil bound for Rhodesia. Two tankers that tried to make that run became lost last week on the chartless sea of international diplomacy. Under the shadow of a United Nations resolution permitting the British to use "force" to preserve their oil embargo of Rhodesia (TIME, April 15), the Ioanna V finally docked in the Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the...
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