Word: britain
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...supervising elections in which adults of all races would have the right to vote. During this period, both the Rhodesian army and the guerrilla armies would be replaced by a U.N. military force, and eventually by a new army for independent Zimbabwe, the African name for Rhodesia. The U.S., Britain and other nations would provide a development fund of between $1 billion and $1.5 billion to help revive the country's battered economy...
...changed that, as poor, unemployed blacks and whites have turned their frustration on one another-and the police. For British cops, the Netting Hill riot was their third violent racial clash in as many weeks. The earlier fights, in which 115 cops were injured, were provoked by demonstrations of Britain's National Front, a 4,500-member neofascist organization that wants to send the country's 2 million black and Asian immigrants back to their countries of birth. In each incident, left-wing extremists, egged on by the Socialist Workers Party (S.W.P.), showed up to protest the virulent...
Many European governments are thus under enormous pressure to seek higher growth. Citing "the preoccupying problem of unemployment," French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing last week announced a $1.1 billion infusion of government spending for public works and family allowances, the second stimulative effort this year. Britain's trades unions are pressing Prime Minister James Callaghan for a large "catchup" pay boost and a major expansion program to create jobs. Even wealthy West Germany, which has sorely disappointed the rest of Europe (as well as the Carter Administration) by failing to push very hard...
These plans are only the latest salvos in the air-fare war. This month Pan Am, TWA and some foreign flag carriers will begin offering New York-London cut-rate fares that compete with the $236 round-trip Skytrain shuttle designed by Britain's upstart Laker Airways. Within the U.S., airlines have been announcing a profusion of cheap fares since last April; that was when American Airlines set off the bargain binge by offering advance-booked coast-to-coast flights at a "supersaver" round-trip fare of $231, which is 45% under the standard economy rate. Other carriers have...
Alarms over these fiber-poor diets began sounding almost a decade ago. In 1969, Surgeon-Captain Thomas Cleave of Britain's Royal Navy wrote a scathing indictment blaming the increased consumption of sugar and other refined carbohydrates (like bleached flour) for a host of diseases, from diabetes and diverticulosis to varicose veins and possibly colon cancer. British Surgeon Denis P. Burkitt followed with a recommendation for dwellers in developed countries to increase their fiber consumption toward the almost 1 oz. per day consumed by Africans he studied. Some eminent nutritionists have protested that the Britons' claims were gross...