Wankie
Britishnoun
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The final death toll is expected to exceed 430, making Wankie the fifth worst coalmining disaster in history.
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The strike had been called at Wankie colliery, a forest-girt slum that taps Southern Rhodesia's massive coal reserves �more than 4 billion tons, mined in a 40-ft. seam.
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No coal from Wankie meant crisis for all Rhodesia.
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Six hundred white soldiers raced to Wankie.
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Rhodesia could place an economic strangle hold on Zambia, since it supplies electric power from the Kariba Dam and coal from the Wankie collieries to power Zambia's huge copper mines, which provide 16% of the free world's copper.
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