Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith met at Gibraltar aboard the assault ship H.M.S. Fearless for what Smith called "the last, last chance" of agreement before Rhodesia goes its own way. It was also a slim chance, since both men have made pledges that are difficult to retract. Smith has vowed that Rhodesia's 220,000 whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come...
Intransigent Right. Both men had at least some compelling reasons to try to reach agreement. The economic sanctions, for example, threaten Rhodesia with permanent loss of the British tobacco market. Yet far from softening Rhodesia's stand, as Wilson hoped, the sanctions have only helped create a more intransigent opposition on Smith's right. When Smith emerged victorious over Rhodesia's extreme rightists in a by-election this summer, Wilson evidently decided that he might never have a better chance for compromise...
Enunciating Israel's "principles of peace," Foreign Minister Abba Eban made the small but key concession that Israel would not demand face-to-face discussions with the Arabs, until now an Israeli precondition for negotiations. But, insisted Eban, any agreement would have to be signed by all parties. Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad revealed that he would be willing to negotiate with Jarring a "timetable" to put into effect the U.N. Middle East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state...
...divisions that rend the U.S., there is at least one point of agreement between blacks and whites, Democrats and Republicans, young and old. It is that Negroes are not really part of the mainstream of American enterprise, and that they should be brought into it through the classic means: ownership of business. Richard Nixon has called for a mixture of Government loans, tax incentives, private business aid and Negro self-help to create "black capitalism." Hubert Humphrey, urging all of that but with greater emphasis on Government aid, has stumped for "black entrepreneurship." He declares that the Negro...
...Peru's nationalists. As things turned out, the deal did not go nearly far enough for the country's military leaders, who used it as the prime pretext for overthrowing President Fernando Belaúnde Terry (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, having peremptorily canceled Belaunde's agreement with IPC, Peru s new junta took a different approach. Rifle-toting infantrymen seized the disputed oilfields, a nearby refinery and other company property worth about $90 million...