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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside observers give Muzorewa much chance of succeeding, however. Says a ranking Western diplomat in neighboring Zambia: "This next period is going to be violent, and the dimension of the violence is far greater than anybody has imagined." Joshua Nkomo's Zambia-based branch of the Patriotic Front currently has about 25,000 men under arms, including some 2,000 inside Rhodesia. The Mozambique-based branch, under Robert Mugabe, also has about 25,000 guerrillas, with 8,600 of them inside Rhodesia. The Rhodesian security forces' incursions into Mozambique and Zambia, where Nkomo's headquarters in Lusaka was raided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Now, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...Registry of Motor Vehicles has issued 360 liquor identification cards at its Boston branch since April 12. The cards, which cost $5, fog if they are tampered with...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Get a Fake ID | 4/21/1979 | See Source »

...come under the Widener bailiwick--has stayed the same for the past ten years. But acquisitions of collections, and hence the workload of the staff, have dramatically increased. Harvard's library system, once labelled a network so vast and expansive that one can get happily lost," boasts almost 100 branch libraries holding nearly 10 million items. Bryant has seen the construction of the libraries that some consider the finest of their kind: Yenching, Countway Medical Library, Gutman Library the Education School), Pusey, Tozzer, the Fine Arts Library and many more. Bryant views libraries in the same light as museums...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Bryant Steps Down: The Man Behind the Stacks | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...campus research institutes "in an unparalleled manner. He brings to the University an identity and a sense of awareness," Martin adds. "But most of all, he has an understanding of cooperation and coordination--he was a unifying element." Staff members from secretaries in the personnel office to full-fledged branch librarians echo Martin's praise...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Bryant Steps Down: The Man Behind the Stacks | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Califano told the eastern branch of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) that if big revenue sports do not receive an exemption, the House Appropriations Committee might act to prohibit use of HEW funds for enforcement of Title IX, Andronike Janus, assistant director of athletics, said last night...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Title IX Embroiled in Controversy | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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