Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Better to jaw-jaw than war-war." So argued British Foreign Secretary David Owen, quoting the Churchillian maxim at the conclusion of the latest Anglo-American mission to southern Africa. The future of Rhodesia was as uncertain as ever last week as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance completed his quick visit to Dar es Salaam, Pretoria and Salisbury and headed for Moscow. But Vance and his colleagues took comfort in the fact that the negotiating process was still alive. Moreover, the mission may have helped refine the Anglo-American strategy for trying to solve the Rhodesian mess...
When Vance arrived in Africa in an effort to save the Anglo-American plan and broaden the base of the Rhodesian settlement, he was hopeful that both sides would agree to the round-table conference. After two days in Dar es Salaam, however, American negotiators complained that the Patriotic Front leaders were more adamant than ever about the role they want to play in a transition government and unwilling to say publicly that they would attend the round table. African observers insisted that Nkomo and Mugabe had merely adopted a tough negotiating posture and would make concessions later. Vance, however...
...convince the Presidents of the so-called front-line states, the two key black nationalists who head the Patriotic Front, and the black leaders who have accepted Prime Minister Ian Smith's internal settlement for Rhodesia that the main hope of avoiding a protracted civil war remains the Anglo-American proposals. Both Smith's Salisbury agreement and the Anglo-American plan predicate eventual black-majority rule. The difference is that Washington and London-neither of which really trusts Smith's assurances of positive transition-would step in under their proposal to supervise such essential instruments of government...
...block-long, dark brown granite and smoked-glass building where the $1.1 billion Times Mirror empire is headquartered. What is more, much of the paper's largely white, middle-class readership is apparently leaving town. The Los Angeles community development department calculates that the city's "Anglo" population has dropped from 81% of the total in 1950 to less than 50% today. Says a U.C.L.A. journalism instructor: "As the white folks go south to Orange and San Diego counties, so goes the Times...
...heart of Anglo-American jurisprudence is the adversary system, a device by which justice and truth are to emerge from the clash between two opposing viewpoints. "We boast about it, but it's a very mischievous system designed not to achieve but to frustrate the truth," declares New York City Lawyer Abraham Pomerantz. "Each side pulls out the facts that help and ignores those that don't. Out of that come confusion and distortion, and the cleverer guy wins." The system also suffers from disparity among lawyers. Some are superior, and others are what U.S. Judge David Bazelon labels "walking...