Word: british
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Britain and France took somewhat different approaches to the terrorism that afflicted their cities. After investigating two earlier killings-the murder of former Iraqi Premier Abdel Razak Nayef last month and the shooting of P.L.O. Representative Said Hammami in January-British authorities decided that Iraqi agents were deeply involved, and that Baghdad was using its embassy and airline to import weapons and killers. The Foreign Office as a result ordered home seven Iraqi diplomats and four other nationals. In retaliation, eight British diplomats and two other nationals were banished from Baghdad...
...Namibia, few people had much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch and German descent, 4,000 "coloreds," and 11,000 blacks, most of them migrant workers from other parts of South West Africa...
Discovered by Portuguese seafarers in the 15th century, Walvis Bay was used as a staging base by 18th century New England whaling men (Walvis means whale in Afrikaans). The area was settled by British pioneers from Cape Town in 1843 and subsequently annexed by Britain; since 1910 it has been governed by South Africa. The community that developed after rail lines were laid in 1915 occupies a narrow space, hemmed in by the gray-flecked ocean and the vast Namib desert...
...Some British Cabinet members last week were hoping that a two-way deal could be pulled off so that British firms could be involved in both the Airbus and one of the U.S. projects. If Britain were to opt for the U.S. deal, in angry Continental eyes that would compound the suspicion that deep down Britain is more interested in maintaining its mid-Atlantic "special relationship" with America than in being a true Common Market partner. Squabbling continued through the week not only about money and planes but also over a common fisheries policy for the E.C.; the British...
...never-ending conflict between continent and island, the basic problem seemed to be just that: they cannot. After nearly a decade, British public opinion still has failed to swing behind the Common Market; moreover, both Tories and Laborites are still internally divided on the question. With a general election looming in October, even pro-European politicians in Britain were not anxious to promote an unpopular cause. All they had to do was look at the polls. The most recent one showed that a majority of Britons?48% to 43%?favor quitting the Common Market altogether...