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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Failure is now out of the question." said Salisbury's jubilant Foreign Minister David Mukome as the second week of talks over the future of Zimbabwe Rhodesia came to a close at London's Lancaster House. Other members of the conference were more restrained in their optimism. Still, progress had been made. By a vote of 11 to 1 (former Prime Minister Ian Smith was the lone dissenter), Bishop Abel Muzorewa's delegation accepted a British proposal for a new Zimbabwe Rhodesian constitution, on one condition: that Britain end economic sanctions against its breakaway foreign colony...
...administration official said the charge of discrimination against union activists is "absolutely and totally false"; another acknowledged with a laugh that the idea was tempting but impossible because of the close scrutiny given to administration policies...
Finnegan, despite a campaign that never got off the ground, hurt both the mayor and Timilty, picking up votes in West Roxbury and Dorchester. If even half of Finnegan's supporters switch to White, the mayor will have very close to the majority he needs...
Timilty will try to close the gap by confronting the mayor. He has already issued a debate challenge to the mayor, and he announced to campaign workers last week that he had "taken his gloves off" for the final campaign. But Timilty is addressing issues most Bostonians care little about--the use of city workers in the incumbent's campaign, for example, a virtually unassailable Boston tradition...
...stay in touch with potential contributors. Harvard clubs like Rochester's usually don't participate directly in fund-raising--that's left to local class agents of the Harvard College Fund. But more often than not, an alumnus who wants to stay in touch with his classmates also feels close enough to the College to want to support it financially...