Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could ride, South Africa would keep control of Namibia (South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations mandated territory that it has ruled since 1920. Not only does Namibia produce some $300 million worth of minerals a year (diamonds, uranium, copper, lead), but it also serves as a partial buffer against the black states to the north...
...Namibian government is expected to sign a security agreement allowing South African troops to be based on Namibian soil. The troops will defend the new government against SWAPO guerrilla raids. More important from South Africa's viewpoint, they will preserve Namibia's status as a buffer to the north...
...problems of landlocked developing nations-but, as expected, the crucial issue was commodities. The so-called Group of 77 (which actually includes about 110 developing countries) pressed for the creation of a $3 billion Common Fund that would attempt to stabilize world prices for various raw materials by maintaining buffer stocks in them (TIME, May 10). By buying and selling from these stocks, the LDCS argued, consumers and producers would be able to keep prices within an agreed range, thus avoiding both the sharp increases that fuel world inflation and the steep declines that bring producers to the brink...
...guns could dominate the harbor, now held by Christian fighters. For a brief time in midweek, it looked as if the two sides had decided to put down their guns and stop fighting in a spontaneous ceasefire. While red-bereted Palestine Liberation Army troops took up positions in a buffer zone between the warring factions, Moslem and Christian soldiers met and drank beer together and even played a little football...
...international airport, under Moslem control, became a target for the first time when a dozen mortar rounds crashed into a hangar area, wounding seven and setting a Boeing 707 freighter on fire. Hopes were briefly raised when units of Syrian-controlled Palestine Liberation Army troops took up some buffer positions between Christian and Moslem lines, but artillery continued to whine and crash through the city, and the death toll for the week climbed to nearly...