Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guerrillas of the Patriotic Front, nothing was more important than disrupting elections in Rhodesia that will usher in Prime Minister Ian Smith's version of black majority rule. For Smith and his three black colleagues in the interim government of the breakaway British colony, nothing was more essential than preventing the guerrillas from carrying out their plans. On the eve of balloting by the country's blacks, a heavily armed Rhodesian raiding party last week struck deeply into Zambia, which provides a headquarters and staging bases for 16,000 irregulars of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People...
...Nkomo maintain their homes. The Rhodesians killed Nkomo's drowsy bodyguards with a burst of machine-gun fire, scaled the 8-ft. fence surrounding his one-story stucco house and blew it up with explosives. Although Zambia had beefed up its defensive capabilities with a new supply of British weapons after a humiliating raid on ZAPU camps last October, the Rhodesians claimed that their men returned home without suffering a single death or injury...
Unruffled as ever, Thatcher introduced the Conservative manifesto at her first open press conference for both the British and foreign press. She presented and defended a document that promised income tax cuts at all levels, a curb on secondary picketing, secret ballots in union elections, cuts in government spending except for defense and the police, a stop to further nationalization, and an end to government interference in wage negotiations in private industry. The Tories also called for a change in British policy toward Rhodesia, which would bring a Thatcher government into confrontation with the Carter Administration. Although...
...Thatcher, the campaign is a crusade for a free economy and greater individual responsibility; Callaghan sees it as a choice between a caring society and a callous one. The Liberals and the minor parties are, for the moment, on the sidelines. The British will be spared a television onslaught, since both major parties will be allowed a total of 50 minutes each throughout the campaign for party broadcasts. Still, Labor delights in poking fun at the glossy publicity campaign mounted by the Tories and their trendy London advertising firm, Saatchi & Saatchi Garland-Compton Ltd. Says Callaghan...
...catch the Yorkshire Ripper, police have mounted the biggest man hunt in British history; more than 300 officers are currently assigned full time to the investigation, which has already cost more than $5 million. Police are mystified by the gaps between the Ripper's murderous outbursts; more than a year elapsed between his third and fourth attacks. Psychologists have put together a profile suggesting that the killer is a powerfully built single white male, between 30 and 50 years old, who probably lives in West Yorkshire, alone or with his aged mother. An obvious psychopath, he may have developed...