Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's firmness was greeted with approval, and some relief, by key Western Eureopean governments, which have been seeking a more positive token of leadership from Washington. Said a senior British official: "In essence, the President's description of the state of American-Soviet and East-West relations is very much...
Last week Tiny Rowland came a cropper at one of his favorite vocations:meddling in the politics of black majority rule in Rhodesia. Not only does Lonrho have vast investments in the breakaway British colony but Rowland has friends-favored ones-both among the leaders involved in Smith's "internal settlement" and among the Patriotic Front leaders who are fighting them. The industrialist's immediate problem, however, lay in nearby Tanzania, where the socialist government of President Julius Nyerere announced plans to nationalize Lonrho's 18 local affiliates...
...land of rolling hills and valleys that lies between the Jordan and the coastal plain is the West Bank, the heartland of what they hope will eventually be an independent Palestinian state. The Palestinian yearning for a national homeland after centuries of rule by the Turks, the British and the Jordanians is every bit as intense as that of Zionist settlers before the creation of Israel. In a sense, it is a "twice Promised Land," once by Yahweh to the Jews in biblical times, again by the United Nations to the Arabs when it partitioned Palestine...
...four-year course to various shorter training programs. The full-time student body is being slashed from 1,120 to 250, the faculty from 177 to 25. Long-sought liberal arts accreditation now appears impossible. While the chips fall, Herbert is buzzing off for a July 8 appearance with British royalty...
Three years ago British Playwright Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests came to Broadway and failed to conquer. Though a huge critical and commercial hit in London, this comic trilogy barely limped through a six-month New York City run. It was not difficult to figure out what had gone wrong: unlike such other recent imports as Peter Shaffer's Equus and Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged, The Norman Conquests had been given an indifferent production. Miscast American actors clobbered the wit out of Ayckbourn's words. Now, through PBS's Great Performances series, The Norman Conquests has a second...