Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain to make an all-out effort to bring Smith to the bargaining table. Said Nyerere: "You Americans have power. Don't use it to support that regime. Put your weight behind liberation." Without such a peace initiative, Nyerere warned, Rhodesia could be headed for an Angola-style civil war between rival nationalists. The end result: a new Zimbabwe that might be far more repressive than present-day Rhodesia...
...admitted Nyerere with a sigh. "What I fear is the possibility that once Smith is out and there is no single army and single authority, then really we can be in trouble. The nationalists have not been very helpful-to themselves, to the future of Zimbabwe -by encouraging a civil...
...moderating force in the Imam. As a political as well as spiritual leader of the country's most impoverished community, he had founded technical schools, sports centers and medical clinics for the poor. He had repeatedly attempted to head off bloody sectarian strife. In 1975, during the Lebanese civil war, he interrupted an antiwar hunger strike to persuade Muslim guerrillas to lift the siege of a Christian village, and thus averted a massacre. Last week many of his followers were praying that Moussa Sadr was carrying out a 1,200-year-old prophecy that Shi'ite Imams...
...Popes since Linus I succeeded St. Peter in A.D. 67, 45 did not survive a year after their election. Six were murdered; one died of wounds received in the course of the Guelph-Ghibelline civil wars; one, John XXI, 1277, was killed by a falling ceiling...
...opening night of the season, came when the orchestra's conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, joined the marchers in an unusual show of support. When police came by and asked the strikers to move away from the entrance to the Kennedy Center, Slava, exiled from the U.S.S.R., kept a civil tongue in his cheek. "In my country," he protested to the cops, "I have never been in jail...