Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discuss the specifics of that report, of course, saying only that it is concerned with "trying to create a framework for wider global accommodation." This, along with European defense concerns, will presumably be one of the main topics when Carter meets late this week with his chief European allies-British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...
SOUTHERN AFRICA. The State Department last week expressed strong approval of South Africa's latest promise to cooperate with the U.N. plan to grant independence to Namibia. But the Administration's attempt, with British help, to bring all parties together to settle the civil war in Rhodesia seems on the verge of collapsing. The Administration's next move might well be to let the problem languish for a while in the U.N.-to let "the dust settle," says Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose...
...admit Western news correspondents to Democratic Kampuchea-as Cambodia now calls itself-two American reporters, Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Elizabeth Becker of the Washington Post, returned to the U.S. with detailed accounts of a two-week visit. A third member of their party, British Scholar Malcolm Caldwell, 47, did not leave Cambodia alive. He was shot to death by antigovernment guerrillas...
...still very small. In Texas, Prince Franz Joseph, the 72-year-old monarch of the 40,000-acre Principality of Liechtenstein, bought 16,000 acres of ranch land. Across the country, other rich aliens are doing the same. Germans and Italians are the heaviest investors, followed by the British, French, Belgians, Canadians and Dutch. Neither the Arabs nor the Japanese seem to be in the market. Most of the buyers are good neighbors who often lease the land back to Americans and pour in development money to introduce modern, small-farming techniques...
...years, such a description virtually deprives Post-Modernism of living father figures. There are, of course, dead grandfathers, from the Catalan master of Art Nouveau, Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), to the English imperial architect Sir Edward Lutyens, whose richly coded and sometimes wildly illogical structures were left wherever the British army marched, from the Somme battlefields to New Delhi...