Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puzzling Out Man's Ascent" [Nov. 7], a difficult task was accomplished well and with considerable sensitivity. There are many workers in America, Britain, France, Africa, Asia and other places who were not mentioned in the story, and I would not wish them to believe that they were forgotten. As one of the leading French anthropologists, Yves Coppens, said to me, "It is a pity we could not all be mentioned, but it is enough that the subject we are a part of has warranted the status of a TIME cover...
...Arabia's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Mansouri told Correspondent Wynn, "and we are very concerned at any action that breaks the unity of the confrontation states [Egypt, Syria, Jordan and the P.L.O.]." As if to underscore the Saudis' continued support, an $80 million arms deal between Britain and Egypt for production of Swingfire antitank missiles in Egypt was announced last week. The main bankroller is Saudi Arabia...
...tide of color threatens to engulf Britian." So warns the National Front, a neofascist party whose main goal is to expel the estimated 2 million "coloreds" - Jamaicans, Indians, Pakistanis and other nonwhite former colonials - who have migrated to Britain since 1945. The ten-year-old front mixes crude, inflammatory racism with a dose of ultranationalism (calling for increased defense spending and high protective tariffs, for example). Official membership is only about 20,000, but the front has attracted a following among working-class whites and is the country's fastest-growing political movement. Although it has yet to elect...
Deeply shocked and troubled by the front's gains, British leaders have begun speaking out against the movement. Many had ignored it at first, hoping that it would fade with lack of attention. In the most dramatic anti-front action so far, Britain's 150-member Council of Churches has issued a joint declaration warning that "our traditional ideas of tolerance and respect are being eroded." The Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference has put forth a similar statement. Church officials are now urging ministers to attack the front from the pulpit and to ask parishioners to sign...
Winston Churchill was to say later: "The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." With good reason. Under Karl Dönitz, one of the most brilliant strategists of World War II, Nazi wolf packs came horrifyingly close to severing Britain's lifelines in 1940 and again in 1943. The Battle of the Atlantic (Dial/James Wade; 342 pages; $14.95) is based largely on newly released documents from British, U.S. and German archives, as well as on eyewitness accounts. The fascinating history exhumes and examines the political squabbles and secret deals on land...