Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women at the top. "At that level, decisions are all personal," former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said. "And how they are made and who makes them does make a difference." By one globetrotting diplomat's count, Carter went to Bonn with real support only from, Britain's Prime Minister Callaghan. The sentiment of the other five ranged from doubt to contempt...
Throughout the Western world, there was a storm of protest directed against the Shcharansky trial and the court cases conducted simultaneously against two other human rights activists: Alexander Ginzburg and Viktoras Pektus. They also were found guilty last week and sentenced respectively to eight and ten years. In Britain, Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that these cases "bear some of the hallmarks of the trials we knew in Stalin's day" (see box). In Israel, where attacks on Soviet Jews are perceived as a family tragedy, Premier Menachem Begin said that Shcharansky's "only sin was that he wanted...
...flurry of activity was a prelude to a meeting this week in Britain of the Israeli and Egyptian Foreign Ministers, with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance serving as moderator. Although nothing conclusive was achieved, the talks in Austria showed that Sadat is still eager to keep his peace initiative alive...
...Which, besides the U.S., includes Canada, Britain, France and West Germany...
...sides worked out a compromise. By 1983 Britain will withdraw what has become an anachronistic and embarrassing colonial presence in the steamy 2,226-sq.-mi. sultanate of 190,000 people on the north coast of Borneo (see map). Meanwhile, British civil servants will continue to handle much of the sultanate's affairs, as they have since 1888, when the tiny backwater country, which a passing naval captain had chanced on 40 years earlier, formally became a British protectorate. In addition, London agreed to keep a battalion of tough Gurkha soldiers in Brunei (pronounced Brew-nigh) until the sultanate...