Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record low 23% of those questioned feel things are going well in this country, compared with 45% in June 1977. The poll also found that Carter, who rose substantially in popularity in the wake of his Camp David meetings last September with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, has again fallen into low esteem in the country. The President has lost important ground to all his political opponents...
...Anglo-American initiative has fallen apart. At present, nobody is pressing for an all-parties conference. Muzorewa and his colleagues do not want one because they expect to be running the show in Salisbury. The guerrillas do not want one because they expect to win everything through force. The result, as Mugabe once put it: "The real conference will be in the bush...
...meantime, the Callaghan government has fallen and if Margaret Thatcher and her Conservatives win Britain's May 3 election, they will undoubtedly alter British policy in the direction of support for Muzorewa and Smith. Some Tory advisers have pointed out that Britain's relations with its African allies, notably Nigeria, could be jeopardized by an abrupt change in policy on Rhodesia. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers are scheduled to meet in Zambia later this year. If the African members should still be angry with Mrs. Thatcher at that time, they could embarrass her greatly by deciding upon some kind of retaliation...
Though Kampala, Uganda's capital, had fallen to a combined Tanzanian- Ugandan force two weeks ago, the main political prize continued to elude the new provisional government of President Yusufu Lule. Former President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada was still at large. He had been variously reported to have fled to Zaire, the Sudan or Iraq, as well as to several points around his own country. At week's end he was said to have been spotted in a village near the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale, traveling in a Land Rover full of radio equipment and accompanied...
When the fighting stopped, the streets were littered with the bodies of fallen soldiers. "You get blood on your shoes walking around the city," reported Journalist Joseph Ngala, who visited the city on assignment for TIME, "and people drive right over the corpses." There were reports of widespread recriminations against Ugandan Muslims, who constitute only 6% of the population but were favored by Amin, himself a Muslim. The Ugandans also took revenge on soldiers sent to Amin's aid by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Continued Ngala: "Near Jinja, there has been indiscriminate killing of Libyans and other Muslim soldiers...