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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...results reflect the leadership's willingness to accept non-communist political participation, but do not mean opposition to the CCP will be tolerated, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., professor of Government, said yesterday...

Author: By Nellie Henderson, | Title: Chinese Vote Engineered, Experts Say | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...leave it, the Patriotic Front came under intense pressure from leaders of the front-line African states to give their assent. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who flew to London last week to confer with the guerrillas and with the Thatcher government, was instrumental in persuading the Front to accept a compromise. Mugabe and Nkomo dropped their original demands for a share of political power and the integration of their military forces with Salisbury's army during the transition period. In exchange, Carrington satisfied their longstanding insistence on "equal status" with the Salisbury forces by including the sentence that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: It Seems Like a Miracle | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...emerged as one of her most influential Cabinet members. Shortly after settling into his Whitehall office, Carrington saved Thatcher from a colossal political blunder on the Rhodesian question by persuading her not to recognize the Muzorewa regime prematurely. After the Prime Minister rather coldly argued that Britain would not accept any Vietnamese "boat people" refugees, Carrington flew to Hong Kong to observe their plight for himself. When he returned to London, he demanded that the Prime Minister reverse her stand, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain's Pragmatic Patrician | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...Senate this month passed a more modest $20 billion bill that will offer loans and price guarantees over the next five years to private companies to open perhaps a dozen commercial synthetic fuel plants. The House passed a smaller synfuels program in early summer but is expected to accept the Senate's larger bill with minor reservations. In 1985 Congress will re-examine synthetic fuel development and decide whether the new technology's progress merits the additional $68 billion investment that Carter proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Bit of Good Energy News | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...memo suggests that Ford might increase profits by loading well-selling models like the subcompact Fiesta and Courier minitruck with expensive options that customers would be forced to accept, and putting on less costly tires. Ford is also attacking internal costs by cutting executive business travel by 50% and symbolically dropping free coffee at company business events and eliminating all magazine subscriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motown's Blues | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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