Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presumably, Ian Smith now recognizes that his principal black partners in the interim government, Muzorewa and Sithole, are of no practical use to him in ending the war. There is pressure on the government to participate in a round of all-party talks, as proposed months ago by the British and American governments. The first priority of such a meeting would be to bring about a ceasefire. Presumably, neither Mugabe nor Nkomo would accept one unless they thought they had a very good chance of dominating a new government. Smith has consistently expressed skepticism about the value of further talks...
...aristocratic Austrian interior designer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Vienna. Because his bride is a Roman Catholic (her first marriage was annulled), Prince Michael was obliged under the Act of Succession of 1700 to renounce his place as 16th in line to the British throne...
...Unilateral Declaration of Independence that first cut Rhodesia's ties with Great Britain in 1965 and reaffirmed white minority rule. As head of state under Prime Minister Ian Smith (he was, he once said, politically far to the right of Smith), he appropriated not only the powers of British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs but also his vintage Rolls-Royce. In 1975, he retired to tend his tobacco farm...
These are only a few of the exotica cited by British Journalist Peter Watson, 35, as evidence of the increasing reliance of the U.S. armed forces on the work of psychologists. Indeed, studies done for the military cost $68 million this year, about 35% of all federally funded psychological research. In his new book, War on the Mind (Basic Books, $17.50), Watson says that the Pentagon's forays into psychology "outrank most other military research projects when it comes to cruelty, deception, ingenuity and sheer absurdity...
Since Viet Nam, the armed forces have been under pressure to find a way to screen out those likely to commit atrocities. A British study showed that the soldier most likely to commit such acts is the mild-mannered, over-controlled type who goes berserk under heavy pressure. In Viet Nam, atrocities were frequently committed by those second in command, in high-stress jobs such as point...