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...Africa experts that the U.S. take a compromise position between Kissinger's reluctance to pressure South Africa to abandon its apartheid policy and Carter's desire to place America openly on the side of black majority rule. Vance fully agreed with Carter. But when the President wanted to dispatch Mondale to jawbone South African Prime Minister John Vorster in what Carter called "the lion's den" in Pretoria, Vance objected. Mondale should be given the benefit of at least meeting Vorster on neutral ground, Vance argued, and the meeting was held in Vienna...
...Oleg Troyanovsky, Shevchenko insisted that he would not return to his native land on an official visit, as Moscow had demanded. Following that meeting, the Soviets registered their first public reaction to the defection by claiming that Shevchenko was being held in the U.S. "under duress." Echoing a Tass dispatch from Moscow, the Soviet Mission to the U.N. issued a statement calling the defector a victim of "premeditated provocation" and of a "detestable frame-up" by American intelligence agents...
Brown proceeded to dispatch the Minutemen with a series of ground balls and strikeouts over the final three innings, with only a mild threat by UMass coming in the eighth...
HIID will dispatch a negotiating team to Mali in the next few months to discuss the terms of the contract, John C. Eddison, associate director of HIID, said yesterday. "We're not home free yet," Eddison said, but chances look good that we will reach an agreement and be working in Mali this summer...
...editor of the East London Daily Dispatch, Woods, a white South African, consistently opposed the government's apartheid policies. He escaped from South Africa two months after the government banned him, confining him to his home and preventing him from writing...