Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of the Patriotic Front guerrilla movement, declared from his headquarters in Mozambique that he would refuse to negotiate until his soldiers were accepted as the national army of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. His co-leader (and rival), Joshua Nkomo, did not deign to comment publicly, but his lieutenants said that Britain could hardly be expected to supervise new elections dispassionately...
...year, when the bond-rating agencies downgraded the company's credit and thus effectively prevented it from raising any further funds in the public markets, Chrysler has had to live off its own flesh and bone. Following earlier sales of some or all of its interests in France, Britain, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, the company in the past few months has announced the closing of two U.S. plants...
...last week, Chief Justice Burger strongly urged judges to consider this proposal, pointing out that it can take "not hours, but days" for the judge to explain the legal issues to jurors, who then cannot always be expected to understand or remember what the judge said. Burger noted that Britain, which has less delay in its courts than the U.S., has successfully abolished juries in most civil cases...
...breakthrough came after Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere called on Britain to take the lead in proposing a new Rhodesian constitution, calling an all-parties conference and holding new elections under Commonwealth auspices...
...seven-month-old constitution of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, which gives whites a disproportionate share of seats in the legislature and effective control of the armed forces, police, civil service and judiciary for five years. To the surprise of many delegates present, Mrs. Thatcher matched the African proposals, declaring that Britain was determined to achieve genuine majority rule in Salisbury and would take the primary responsibility for bringing it about. In fact, she and her Cabinet colleagues had worked out the Tory government's African position before the conference began. But by publicly announcing it at the Lusaka summit, in response...