Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before the first Dutch settlers came to the Cape of Good Hope; the westward movement in the U.S. came at the same time as the Afrikaaners moved north in covered wagons on their Voortrek. Both countries had gold rushes in the nineteenth century; both countries had to fight the British for their independence. The only reason America doesn't have South Africa's problems today, they'll tell you, is that the early Americans were better at killing off the indigenous peoples...
Surprisingly, the West has proved one of Smith's more effective opponents, though it has done little to encourage a peaceful settlement of the Rhodesian problem. For example, the U.S. currently backs an Anglo-American plan pieced together by U.N. ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen. The plan marks an attempt by the British to atone for their weak-willed opposition to Smith's "colonial rebellion," and by the U.S. to undo the effects of the Nixon administration's "tilt" toward the apartheid states in the early '70s. Unfortunately, it calls for the participation of Nkomo...
...contrary, I think they'd start easing off. I know the British would; if the Americans do anything, the British tend to follow. I think already there's a perception that South Africa is not the wonderful investment it used to be, and that it's going to become increasingly less...
...vehicle supposed to bear this burden is the kidnapping and murder of a minor British embassy official named West (well-played by Trevor Barnes). Throughout the play he is the detached observer of Indians either viciously slaughtered or "civilized." West dies eventually--killed for no reason by Carlos (Jeff Horwitz), an otherwise affable guerrilla, in a mockery of the Marxist's own vision of justice...
...experience has been that Harvard and Radcliffe students do not, generally, find the academics at English universities all that heavy going although most of them do experience initial feelings of inferiority in the face of their very articulate and--as Mr. Marsden indicates--well-prepared British classmates. I have no statistics, but I would be very surprised if our students showed significantly worse on Tripos or Finals than the natives, or worked any harder preparing for them...