Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTHERN AFRICA. The State Department last week expressed strong approval of South Africa's latest promise to cooperate with the U.N. plan to grant independence to Namibia. But the Administration's attempt, with British help, to bring all parties together to settle the civil war in Rhodesia seems on the verge of collapsing. The Administration's next move might well be to let the problem languish for a while in the U.N.-to let "the dust settle," says Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose...
...natural gas, and to ease the strains caused by the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, months of patient U.S. diplomacy were thrown into question when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle last week rejected a U .S. proposal for internationally supervised elections aimed at ending civil strife over his rule...
...obvious attempt to reassure his opponents, the palace announced that "it is possible that after the installation of a civil government the Shah may go with his family on his routine annual winter vacation." This was calculated as yet a further concession to skeptics, since the monarch earlier had balked at the suggestion that he take a "temporary absence" from Iran so that order could be restored. The skeptics were not impressed, since there was no way that they could be assured that the Shah would keep his word...
...Belli, the maker of new law, a Darrow of civil law who creatively brought demonstrative evidence to torts, who introduced the concepts of warranty and the adequate award and made ambulance chasing socially acceptable...
Buck received the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for "The Road to Reunion," considered "the standard book" on reconstruction after the Civil War, Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History, said yesterday...