Word: britons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boer War of 1899-1902 but won the country. Even so, they remain suspicious of the English-speaking white minority, and in moments of political stress, the Afrikaners-whose native tongue is related to Dutch-trot out their sacred tribal memories of the bloody fighting between Boer and Briton. Thus last week, in the midst of a parliamentary debate, Defense Minister Piet Botha declared that there were elements of the predominantly English United Party "who hate the Afrikaner." An opposition member replied, "You're a scandalous liar," and walked out. One M.P. addressed another as "the Honorable Maggot." Other...
...Korean armistice commission in Panmunjom. Over the years the stalemated talks have turned into something of an endurance contest, with national honor at stake. After sitting down at 11 a.m. in their meeting rooms, the ten delegates-five representing North Korea and five (a South Korean, an American, a Briton, a Thai and a Filipino) for the U.N.-would not budge until one of the squirming participants broke down and in desperation moved for adjournment, usually late in the afternoon. On one particularly truculent day in April 1969, everyone sat tight for 11 hours and 38 minutes...
Over the debate, as well, hovered the Briton's traditional insular distrust of things Continental, of losing his national sovereignty, and of seeing his way of life transformed. It is a fear that, as Anthony Burgess put it, "England is to be absorbed, her own distinctive character sordined, and the end of a great Empire be completed in the bastardisation of a great empire-building nation...
Divorced. Peter Ustinov, 50, author, raconteur and the only Briton ever to win two Academy Awards for acting (for Spartacus in 1960 and Topkapi in 1964); by Suzanne Cloutier, 44, a French Canadian onetime actress; after 17 years of marriage, three children; in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...Beirut, Lebanese officials reacted angrily to a charge by Kim Philby, the Briton who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, that eight Lebanese journalists and politicians had been working for British intelligence. Philby's charge was clearly part of a "disinformation" campaign designed to divert attention from the big spy case in London. One unexpected result was to disrupt a Soviet campaign to cultivate Lebanon's influential moderate and right-wing leaders. Former President Camille Chamoun, whose eldest son Dorian was named by Philby, angrily canceled a dinner he had planned to give for Soviet Ambassador Sarvar...