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Another protracted African conflict was heating up in the breakaway Ethiopian province of Eritrea. In the first phase of a major offensive to smash the province's 17-year-old independence movement, Ethiopian forces, backed by Cuban and Soviet technicians and advisers, in August succeeded in reopening the road to the key city of Agordat. There, government troops had been pinned down by guerrillas of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) since late this summer...
...dealt extensively with Rhodesian affairs agree on one thing at least: nailing wily Prime Minister Ian Smith to any deal is almost as hard as netting a rare African butterfly. Last week, at the conclusion of a 14-day U.S. tour aimed at promoting his "internal settlement" for the breakaway British colony, Smith apparently got pinned. U.S. and British officials announced that the Prime Minister and his three black colleagues on Rhodesia's governing Executive Council had agreed to their terms for an all-parties conference dealing with the country's future. That conference-the basis of Anglo...
After ten years in power, Trudeau also suffers from chronic overexposure. In 1976 his popularity soared, following the election of Separatist Premier Rene Levesque in predominantly French-speaking Quebec. Anglophone Canadians then felt that Trudeau, a bilingual Quebecois from Montreal, was uniquely qualified to fight the breakaway movement in the country's largest province (pop. 6 million). Since then, Levesque has cannily soft-pedaled his political line. As a result, the urgency of the separatist threat to Canada's 111-year-old confederation has worn off outside Quebec...
About two minutes later, freshman left winger Cat Ferrante was streaking toward the goal on a breakaway when she was tripped from behind, and Harvard was awarded a penalty shot. Kathy Batter beat the Tiger goaltender easily, and the Crimson a 3-0 advantage...
...would hear him out, Smith patiently insisted that his internal settlement fulfills the conditions of an agreement he made with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976. In brief, Smith said, he agreed to majority rule for the breakaway British colony within two years; in return, the U.S. and Britain would recognize the legitimacy of his government and end the United Nations sanctions that have plagued Rhodesia's economy since 1966. "Our case is watertight," said Smith. "We cannot understand what is wrong...