Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradually, in response to the British proposals both delegations began to indicate their positions on the issues, and as nearly everyone expected, their positions differed drastically. Nkomo and Mugabe wanted to discuss "pre-independence arrangements," or measures to be taken before Zimbabwe can be officially decolonized by Britain amd made independent; in particular, they hoped to concentrate talks on the replacement of current white-controlled police and military forces with their own black troops. But Muzorewa would have none of that. Rather than transfer leadership of the police and military forces to the Front--in effect, ceding control...
...talks that led to the independence of so many British colonies took place, Zimbabwe Rhodesia's* Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa sits down this week with his archenemies Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front. The purpose of the conference, which is sponsored by Britain, is to forge an agreement that may lead to Patriotic Front participation in new elections and an end to the bloody seven-year civil war. With a stable majority-rule government in Salisbury, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could lift the 13-year-old economic sanctions against Britain's breakaway...
Meanwhile, the Ripper has become Britain's best-known unknown man. Thousands of people have listened to his chilling recorded threat on a special phone line police set up in the hope that someone would recognize the Ripper's voice. British tabloids have been filled with lurid accounts of his grisly deeds. Streetwalkers in the Ripper's favorite stalking grounds have been advised to remain indoors, and, to the chagrin of their customers, some are taking the advice. One thing is all but certain: the Ripper will call again...
...Director John Groome: "We may be premature, but we are going to be there when the market explodes on the upside." That is widely expected to occur when inflation, interest rates and the dollar show signs of moving in the right direction. As Christopher Johnson of Lloyds Bank in Britain says of Wall Street's future: "There is a boom market out there, but not for a few more months...
Before the decade was half over, Walt Disney Productions had acquired financially troubled Great Britain and turned it into a theme park, the United Magic Kingdom. In Italy, 65% of the population was living blindfolded in cellars and the trunks of cars, and kidnap victims were accepted as legal tender. Mexico's oil reserves made it a land of opportunity, and streams of unemployed migrant U.S. business executives - "whitebacks" - turned the teeming slums of Mexico City into hotbeds of conservative unrest...