Word: britain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, representatives of five Western nations (the U.S., France, Britain, Belgium and West Germany) were meeting in Paris; this week an expanded group of Western delegates-as well as some from Japan, Saudi Arabia and Iran -will move on to Brussels. The purpose of both meetings: to devise an economic rescue plan for Zaïre. For a start, the group will raise $100 million to cover the next three months, with $40 million of this amount contributed by the U.S. That may be just the beginning. Bankrupt Zaïre's debts already approach $3 billion...
...Annapolis speech; he may well have been responding to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's argument that the U.S. must not lose sight of the far greater importance of the black-white struggle in southern Africa. At the Paris meeting, the U.S., as well as Britain and Belgium, argued for an African military force with a specific and limited mission: to support Zaïre during the current emergency...
...power struggle, in which Rader and his former secretary, who is now married to Herbert, have ganged up on Garner Ted. There is also another possible issue. Garner Ted has gradually played down some of Dad's more embarrassing dogmas. Among them: that heaven is racially segregated, that Britain and the U.S. have become the "real Israel," and that remarried converts must forsake their second spouses and, if possible, rejoin their first. He also opposed use of physicians...
...Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). In fact, the civil war never really ended, and Neto's Popular Movement government, even with Cuban assistance, has not been able to establish jurisdiction over a country that is larger than Britain, France, Portugal and West Germany combined...
Khama, who has served as Botswana's president since the country gained independence from Britain in 1966, has earned a reputation as a staunch foe of the apartheid policies of South Africa. Although continuing trade relations with that nation, Botswana has, under Khama's leadership, established itself as one of the foremost opponents of apartheid, frequently sponsoring and supporting United Nations resolutions condemning South Africa and its racial policies...