Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise only to those who had been vacationing at Gilligan's Island the week before. Seven days previous in Providence, after all, Harvard had knocked the league's up-and-coming power, Brown, out of championship contention. The 45-26 thrashing was made doubly embarrassing by the fact ABC had beamed the mismatch all across the cast coast...
...some Harvard official--was it Larry Stevens?--was reported to have said last year that parts of Soweto were not so dreadful, that they had paved roads and telephones. I can't figure out where they took him. Most of Soweto has no electricity, much less paved roads; in fact, the township's administrative board is currently conducting a survey to determine whether Soweto residents want electricity. Hard to believe a survey is really necessary...
Smith's hand is strengthened by the fact that his black partners seem more concerned with jockeying for political position in the future government than making sure that government will have power independent of the whites. Muzorewa supports the current settlement because he feels assured of winning the popular elections; Sithole and Chirau are along for the ride. Muzorewa even accompanied Smith on his unsuccessful lobbying mission to the U.S. last month to drum up support for the interim agreement...
...Patriotic Front's chief backers--namely Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, Botswana and Tanzania--have been distracted lately by domestic matters and quarrels among themselves. All of them have suffered ravaged economies because of the curtailment of trade in the region caused by the embargo on dealings with Rhodesia; in fact, the embargo has hurt African states more than it has affected the Smith regime. Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda even had to reopen the border with Rhodesia this month to make possible importation of badly-needed fertilizer for his country's planting season; this incensed president Samora Machel of Mozambique, whose relations...
...Nkomo and Mugabe in negotiations for a political settlement, a proposition which could precipitate bloody civil war between the Front and domestic black groups after the fall of Smith. There is enmity between Nkomo and Sithole, and little love lost between any of the moderates and the Front; in fact, even relations between Nkomo and Mugabe have been somewhat less than cordial, and there are hints that the two might pit their armies against each other in competition for total control of an independent Zimbabwe. Neither of the guerrilla leaders will promise to hold elections before proclaiming an independent black...