Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nyerere believes that this tragic black-against-black conflict-with a built-in potential for interference by outside powers-can be averted by reviving the Anglo-American peace plan. Mugabe and Nkomo have agreed to the proposal, but Smith has not. In essence, the plan calls for Britain to reassert its legal authority over its rebel colony-which unilaterally declared its independence in 1965-as a prelude to holding elections for a new Zimbabwean government. A U.N. peace-keeping force would guarantee a truce until the creation of a unified Zimbabwe army, composed of guerrillas and "acceptable elements...
...word is pressure. Nyerere believes Smith will get down to serious bargaining only after he is convinced that "he cannot count on support from the U.S. and Britain." Two recent events, however, may have reassured Smith that in the final pinch the West will come to his aid: 1) a recent congressional attempt to require the U.S. to lift sanctions against Rhodesia by the end of 1978; and 2) disclosures that past British governments looked the other way when oil companies violated a ban on petroleum shipments to Rhodesia. Nyerere professes to be unconcerned about the past. "The international community...
...Anglo-American effort is resumed, Nyerere cautioned, the U.S. and Britain must not underestimate the wiliness of the Rhodesian Prime Minister. Said Nyerere: "Everyone who has assumed that Smith is a fool, Smith has taken in. [Prime Minister Harold] Wilson tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed. [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed too. Don't try to be clever with Smith. Deal with him on the ground he has chosen: power. Gather power and overthrow him." Then, as the warm winds ruffled the coconut palms at his ocean...
...them would help calm currency fluctuations and boost the buck, others reiterated that global money markets are no longer behaving rationally enough to be quieted down easily. Otmar Emminger, president of the West German Bundesbank, confessed that he had "given up hope that the markets would react to logic." Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey found the entire world monetary system to be "in disarray" to the point of peril. The dollar rose a bit after the Senate's compromise on natural gas, the improved U.S. trade figures for August and Jimmy Carter's brief...
...worrying about the LDCS' "minuscule" exports of such products, McNamara said, the richer countries would be wise to help the LDCS continue to earn the foreign currency that they need to buy the developed countries' goods. Citing a list of new import barriers erected by the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and other manufacturing nations against Third World shoes, textiles, TV sets and other products, McNamara warned that "excessive protectionism is not only unfair. It is self-defeating...