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...actually a bold gamble. It had been hoped that it would crown 14 weeks of painstaking negotiations among representatives of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's biracial Salisbury regime, the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance and the British government. Meeting at London's Lancaster House under the skillful chairmanship of British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the negotiators had hammered out important agreements on a new majority-rule constitution and a transitional plan leading to legal independence. A full cease-fire agreement, however, continued to elude the negotiators. The gamble was to send Soames into Salisbury without...
...small number of soldiers and a British police official, Sir James Haughton, who will oversee the Rhodesian police. A British election commissioner will organize the voting. Carrington also intends to establish a cease-fire commission on which the military commanders of both factions would be represented under the chairmanship of a British general. Elections will be held two months after the cease-fire takes effect, possibly as early as February...
Carter first discussed the campaign chairmanship with Strauss earlier this year, but the garrulous Texan hankered after a more statesmanlike job. He won the Middle East assignment last April, but when he discovered that his down-home diplomatic style did not produce quick results, he grew restless. Spurred on by White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and Confidant Charles Kirbo, Carter again asked Strauss to take charge of his re-election effort. This tune the former Democratic Party chairman agreed, but demanded the freedom to run the campaign as he saw fit. Carter's reply, says Strauss...
Some Air Force hardliners, still smarting from the B-l experience, have insinuated that the J.C.S. chairmanship was the reward Jones got for going along with the White House. To be sure, Carter, like most Presidents, prizes team players. But the main element in Jones' selection was the problem-solving managerial talent that he had demonstrated during his four years as head of the Air Force and prior to that as commander in chief...
...Raider comes to Congress?" mused the Connecticut Democrat in 1975, shortly after his election. Four years later, Moffett admits: "I'm trying to find the fine line between screaming all the time and being a member of the club." Last January he outmaneuvered three senior Representatives to win the chairmanship of the powerful Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources. A second-generation American with Lebanese grandparents, Moffett, who studied government at Syracuse University and Boston College, is a longtime defender of consumer rights. He has spoken out against high energy costs and opposes President Carter's decontrol of domestic...