Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basis for Settlement. The tragedy is that only a few days before, a solution to the long Rhodesian crisis had seemed almost within grasp. Meeting on board the British cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had taken only two days to hammer out a "working document" that, Wilson announced, "should serve as the basis for a settlement...
...document called for constitutional amendments that would give Rhodesia's overwhelming black majority an immediate minority voice in the government, yet preserve white rule for a period that Wilson estimated would last about ten years. A Royal Commission composed of Rhodesians would draft the necessary amendments, which would be submitted to "Rhodesians as a whole" for approval. In the meantime, censorship would be lifted, political prisoners freed and "normal" political activity permitted. The Rhodesian Parliament, whose hard-line white-supremacist majority might try to block the new constitution, would be dissolved and all legislative powers handed over to British...
When newsmen first gathered around Lyndon Johnson's bedside at Bethesda last week, they found him intently studying a memorandum on the question of a tax increase. The President shoved the document toward the reporters for a quick glance. One sentence stood out. "We feel there is a high premium," it said, "on an announcement within the first ten days of December...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). 'Inside Red China," narrated by Marvin Kalb. Films taken last spring by a West German crew peer inside homes, a steel mill and a university, also show life in a farm commune and the cities of Shanghai, Peking and Wuhan. Other films document the recent upheavals of the Red Guards...
...become disillusioned the next year and remained inactive after that. He insisted that he was drafted into Von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry in 1940 and served only in a minor position in the section that beamed broadcasts abroad. To buttress his statement, he released a wartime document in which a Nazi informer had denounced him to the Gestapo for sup pressing anti-Jewish material on broad casts to the U.S. and for harboring liberal ideas...