Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backed diplomatic initiative, aimed at obtaining agreement between Prime Minister Ian Smith's government and the rival black nationalist factions on a new constitution guaranteeing representation to the country's 6.3 million blacks. A jointly sponsored Rhodesian constitutional conference this summer will be postponed; instead, an Anglo-American "consultative group" will carry on bilateral negotiations with all parties likely to be involved in a future settlement. But the goal remains the same-majority rule...
...habit of language, or the spark that led Helen Keller to conceive a universe of names and linguistic relationships out of the box of her senselessness. His writing style grows out of this attitude of detachment and rediscovery. Percy's sentences are made of very plain, when necessary very Anglo-Saxon English and his writing has the almost unnerving declarative quality of Vonnegut. He sees and writes from the detachment and rediscovery of his own life, his own apocalyptic transformation. Alfred Kazin writes that...
...visit southern Africa, he plainly hoped to capitalize on the Russians' success in backing the victorious forces in Angola-and to take advantage of the vacuum of big-power influence on the continent. The message: Moscow, not Peking, is the true friend of the developing world. With Anglo-American efforts to help negotiate a settlement in Rhodesia at a standstill, the visit took on added meaning. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Soviets want to be around when things move in Rhodesia and South Africa, and they want to be on the side of the key 'frontline...
...Caveat: If you feel you need a professional researcher, write for a list of qualified practitioners to the Board for Certification of Genealogists, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. Average hourly fee: up to $10. For Anglo-Americans, Debrett's of London, the guru of British pedigree and form, opened a tracing bureau for the common man in February and received more than 1,000 inquiries its first month. For easy-to-trace families, Debrett's can deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats...
Each country has its gripes. As Carter heard last week from visiting Prime Minister James Callaghan, Britain is upset by New York City's reluctance to grant landing rights to the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic jetliner (see THE WORLD). French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is even more piqued. The West Germans fear that Carter's pressure to get them to cancel a sale of nuclear reactors to Brazil will result in damage to their reputation abroad as dependable deliverers...