Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blunt and aristocratic, Carver regards himself as "an apolitical general," but he has strong views on Rhodesia. Before flying to Salisbury, he responded sharply to criticism Smith has leveled at Carver's advocacy of majority rule. Said Carver: "If [Smith] doesn't understand that the whole exercise of the Anglo-American plan is to bring about majority rule on the basis of one-man one-vote at the earliest moment, the sooner he damn well understands it, the better." Carver is convinced that the current peace proposals are "the last chance for a just and peaceful settlement in Rhodesia...
...growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...
...opting for so blunt an approach to security, the government burned the few remaining bridges between itself and the resentful black community. After last week's brutal reminder that white force is never far from the surface, however, most blacks will think twice before considering the option of guerrilla warfare. As for white moderates, the parties that speak for them may increase their protest vote in next month's parliamentary elections, but there is no chance that they can defeat the Nationals...
...sprouting up faster than soybeans in June. They are posted on idle tractors, trucks and combines, on the sides of barns and the walls of farm cooperative offices. NO DEAL, NO MEAL, they proclaim. Or NO PAY, NO HAY. Or FOR YOUR NEXT BAG OF SUGAR, CALL FIDEL. Blunt and pithy, they capture perfectly the mood of America's angry, embattled farmers...
...Moshe Dayan's version last week of his late-night discussion in New York City with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance about a new Geneva peace conference (TIME, Oct. 17). Dayan gave his harsh account of the talks-Washington insisted they were "direct," perhaps even "blunt," but far from "brutal"-during a Knesset debate on the working paper on Geneva that he and the American leaders had accepted. The Foreign Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting a Palestine Liberation Organization presence...