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Word: britain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another retired bureaucrat he is not. His extraordinary achievements as Secretary of State, the friends he made in the power fraternity, have given him a postgraduate status among diplomats that has never existed before. Germany's Helmut Schmidt breakfasted secretly with Kissinger at a British resort in April. Britain's James Callaghan and France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing both invited him to dinner when they learned that Henry was coming to their respective countries. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin asks him to lunch every few weeks in Washinngton. When Egypt's President Sadat came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Henry: Watching, Waiting, Worried | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...relinquish all control over the security forces; Smith will not do that unless law-and-order is guaranteed, and understandably enough, he will not allow the guerrilla forces to take over that function. One possible solution: an international peace-keeping force for the transition period-but the U.S., Britain and several other nations have indicated that they want no part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Ian Smith's Last Stand? | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

Barrister Michael Ford, 35, left last year after spending 8 years in Rhodesia. The draft was hurting his practice and as a lawyer he was troubled that captured guerrillas were being tried as terrorists rather than as prisoners of war Unable to start a practice in Britain, he was unemployed for six months; after being refused permission to migrate to New Zealand or Hong Kong, he finally went into business with a friend in Johannesburg Ford predicts that in the future white Rhodesians may have an even harder time relocating than he did. "It follows you like a bad smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Taking the Chicken Run | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

...National Council for Civil Liberties promptly denounced the judgment as "a dangerous new form of censorship." Several newspapers agreed. The Guardian, for one, expressed doubt whether "blasphemy as a criminal charge is germane to contemporary arguments." A Labor M.P., Brian Sedge-more, joined in with an appeal that Britain's 279-year-old blasphemy statute be abolished by Parliament. The odds on such a move, however, appear small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: On Trial for Blasphemy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...worth less to a playwright than to be obsessed. With Eugene O'Neill, it is the isolated torment of the soul's loneliness. With Arthur Miller, it is the nagging quest for justice. With Tennessee Williams, it is the poignant cry of the violated heart. And though Britain's Alan Ayckbourn does not rank with these playwrights, he, too, has his ambient obsession. Again and again (Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests and now Absent Friends) he dwells on the crimping horizons and absurdist conventional fritter of suburban life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Barometric Eye on Suburbia | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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