Word: abell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before that deadline was up, Zimbabwe Rhodesia's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa accepted the British draft unequivocally. He then repeated his demand that the British meet their "legal and moral obligation to immediately lift [economic] sanctions and lead us to international recognition." The only dissenter in Muzorewa's twelve-man party was former Prime Minister Ian Smith. He denounced the British pact as "madness" and flew back to Salisbury to rally white support against...
...white minority (3% of the population) an outsize 20% of the seats in a future parliament. The move clearly ran against their longstanding contention that such a guarantee would be inherently "racist." Their grudging acceptance of it now brought them into line with the Salisbury delegation of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, which had adopted the 20% formula a week earlier. Then, with equally surprising magnanimity, the bishop's multiracial coalition government reversed an earlier stand and announced its acceptance of internationally supervised elections. At week's end only a few outstanding questions remained before agreement could be reached...
...over the future of Zimbabwe Rhodesia came to a close at London's Lancaster House. Other members of the conference were more restrained in their optimism. Still, progress had been made. By a vote of 11 to 1 (former Prime Minister Ian Smith was the lone dissenter), Bishop Abel Muzorewa's delegation accepted a British proposal for a new Zimbabwe Rhodesian constitution, on one condition: that Britain end economic sanctions against its breakaway foreign colony...
When they last sat down with British diplomats in Geneva three years ago, the archenemies in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's civil war could not even agree on an agenda. The talks broke off after three stormy weeks. Thus the British officials who had persuaded Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa and his guerrilla foes from the Patriotic Front to attend a "constitutional conference" in London last week were cheered when the two sides agreed on an outline for the discussions. It had been adopted, an erudite Foreign Office spokesman gleefully announced, nemine contradicente (Latin for without any objection), on only...
...become reality as two delegations arrived for talks in Lancaster House, near Saint James Palace in the heart of London. One group spoke for the Patriotic Front, won alliance of insurgent forces headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; the other represented the current government, led by Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and including Minister Without Portfolio Ian Smith...