Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as it thinks it has a chance of coming to power in Salisbury. Western governments and several other interested parties made overtures last year to coax Nkomo into abandoning Mugabe and joining the interim Rhodesian regime. The efforts failed. Dismissing last week's results and the April election as well, Nkomo scathingly told TIME: "The people will have won the war by April...
...into a broader civil war as the various black factions, separated by tribal, personality and ideological divisions, battle each other for power. Small wonder, then, that more than 13,000 of Rhodesia's dwindling number of whites chose to emigrate last year, and that between now and the April elections another 10,000 are expected to leave...
...threat of fuel curbs and Sunday closings in April...
...industry last week. The threat of scarcities is being raised by the political upheaval in Iran, which has virtually shut down that country's vast oilfields and is reducing supplies worldwide. Last week Energy Secretary James Schlesinger warned that unless Iran's wells are pumping again by April 1-which is unlikely, given the complexity of the job of resuming production even if the political crisis is soon resolved-the Administration will have to take steps to clamp mandatory restraints on U.S. gasoline and oil consumption...
Schlesinger reported that his department is preparing "a variety of measures" to curb demand after April 1 if such moves become necessary. The most likely step: limiting the crude oil and gasoline made available to refiners and dealers. Another possibility is the mandatory closing of gasoline stations on Sundays and evenings. However, Schlesinger ruled out, at least for now, any resort to outright rationing of motor fuel...