Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over a council of ministers, which was to have a black majority and a black "First Minister." However, Smith added, the key ministries of Defense and Law and Order ? the important security posts ? would be reserved for whites. The new, majority-rule constitution, he added, would be "drawn up in Rhodesia by Rhodesians" ? meaning the council of state, on which the whites will have all-important parity...
Among other things, the African leaders objected to the notion of the council of state as supreme, the allotment of the two security ministries to whites, and Smith's inference that the new constitution would be drawn up inside Rhodesia. They also wanted greater speed: "We are talking about majority rule in four to six weeks," said Julius Nyerere, "with the formation of an interim government." Nyerere also noted wryly that Smith had ended his TV speech with Churchill's famous line: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning...
...might have predicted a handsome majority for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The fact that his nation had weathered a worldwide recession far better than most major industrial powers would alone have assured an outpouring of admiration at the ballot boxes in almost any other country. But West Germans, drawn by the homespun conservative appeal of Christian Democratic Challenger Helmut Kohl, refused to let Schmidt rest comfortably on his record. Trying to keep pace with Kohl, 46, in an unexpectedly tight race, Schmidt crisscrossed the country in search of votes, logging 16,120 miles and delivering 80 speeches...
...first democratic social contract of the New World was drawn up in Philadelphia. Equality before the law, political democracy, federalism - in short, the example set by a society organized on a basis of respect for the dignity of men and of limitation of government powers established by law - inspired independence movements and the formation of new nations throughout the Americas...
...angles. "Fenway Park," John Updike once wrote, "is a lyric little bandbox of a ball park. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg." Fenway represents the essence of the game: its powerful, alluring character has drawn millions of New Englanders inside the confines of its red-brick walls summer after summer for the last six decades...