Word: britain
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Prime Minister James Callaghan was deeply embarrassed by the affair. Late last week, with Foreign Secretary David Owen, Callaghan flew off to Nigeria to meet Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda for urgent discussions on the deteriorating situation in southern Africa?and also to convince black Africa that Britain's oily hands were finally clean...
...both sides are inevitable. The Rhodesian guerrillas are accused of many attacks on noncombatants, including the murder of as many as 40 missionaries and members of their families. In June alone, two Salvation Army officers and four other missionaries were shot, and eight adults and five children from Britain's Elim Pentecostal mission were bludgeoned to death. The Patriotic Front officially disavows the Elim massacre and other bloody incidents. But the front's leaders, Joshua Nkomo and the Marxist-oriented Robert Mugabe, are probably unable to control their own forces. Many guerrilla commanders consider missionaries part of the country...
According to the National Science Foundation, in the years 1953 through 1955 the U.S. introduced 63 "major" technological innovations. West Germany, Japan, Britain and France had together only 20. But now foreign competitors are bringing out as many new products and processes as the U.S.?or more. In the category of new patents, a key measure of R. and D. vitality, American inventors were granted 45,633 patents by major trading partners in 1966, while the U.S. gave only 9,567 to non-Americans that year. By 1976, however, the so-called patent balance had shifted radically. The number...
Names matter, as advertisers have long known, and professors are getting the message that a renovated course title can mean more students. Columbia History Professor Stephen Koss once taught "English History: 1760 to the Present." Now he presides over "The Political Culture of Modern Britain," and students flock to it in small whole numbers. At Southern Oregon State College, astronomy is known as "Outer Space." The University of Montana has christened a course on Mexican history "Cow Chips and Revolution...
...demanding event?the most important in the scoring?that the 70,000 spectators in the Horse Park had waited eagerly to see: the four-part endurance run over a course so tough that many experts there called it the most strenuous in the world. Among those watching was Britain's Prince Philip, president of the International Equestrian Federation and a fine rider himself; he was, he said, glad he did not have to compete over the course...