Word: evens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...privileges and reduces their guaranteed representation from 28 to 20 seats in Salisbury's 100-member Parliament. Moreover, Muzorewa's government is stepping down, and compensation for nationalized lands will be paid for out of an international fund. Partly at Kaunda's urging, Carrington last week even agreed to feed and house the guerrillas during the transition period...
...international recognition and an end to economic sanctions has turned all but a handful of Rhodesia's diehards into fans of Carrington's and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's. The Salisbury Parliament is scheduled to meet this week to vote the British-drafted constitution into law. Even Ian Smith's Rhodesia Front declared its support of the agreements...
...years he had kept his guilty secret, with the help of successive British governments and possibly even Queen Elizabeth II. But early this month a new book by Journalist Andrew Boyle, The Climate of Treason, claimed that there had been a "fourth man" in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby spy ring of the 1940s and early 1950s. Boyle, who apparently drew heavily on sources formerly in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, even hinted broadly at his name, prompting questions from Labor members in Parliament. Last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher replied with a written statement that essentially admitted...
...before the incident at democracy wall, Liu had told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein in Peking that he was morally prepared for arrest. Speaking for himself and the other editors of his magazine, Liu said, "We recognize that to achieve democracy, we will have to make some sacrifices-of blood, even of our lives. But we are ready to sacrifice for the sake of changing China." April Fifth Forum, which Liu had helped found, was named for the 1976 demonstration in Peking's Tiananmen Square when hundreds of people seeking to honor the late Premier Chou En-lai were arrested...
...much touted restoration of the rule of law in China, which includes a guarantee of open trials where the accused's rights are to be fully respected. After the Forum editor was imprisoned, police claimed that it was a crime to sell a trial transcript without court authorization, even though Wei's trial had theoretically been open to everyone. In fact, it had been closed to his relatives, friends and to the foreign press; tickets had been distributed to factory workers who had not even asked to attend...