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...United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and British Foreign Secretary David Owen flew into Zambia late last week to begin a selling job on the peace plan. After a meeting in the capital of Lusaka with representatives of the five front-line states (Zambia, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Botswana), as well as with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, leaders of the nationalists' Patriotic Front, Young and Owen were scheduled to continue to Pretoria. The proposals will be presented this week to South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster and Smith himself. The plan provides...
While the Lusaka conference was going on, Smith flew to Pretoria for talks with Vorster. The two leaders are likely to focus their objections to the U.S.-British proposal on two aspects: first, the plan would require Smith's resignation, and second, it would mean disbanding some units of the Rhodesian army, including the notorious Selous Scouts, and allowing a U.N. peace-keeping force to come in. Young, for his part, professes optimism that Smith will realize that "Rhodesian whites cannot win" and thus take the peace proposal seriously. At the same time, Young says he discerns among black...
...expense reports. The company maintained ftat Gravitt was being investigated at the time of his suicide for philandering with employees on company time. He was accused of trying to seduce a female Bell employee in his private plane on a trip between San Antonio and Laredo as the plane flew on automatic pilot...
...that same spirit, the Senate's most critical Republicans, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch, flew to the Canal Zone aboard an Air Force plane to listen to the complaints of Americans living there. No sooner did they leave, having ingested what one American businessman in Panama called "an overdose of fuel for their case," than Mississippi's Senator James Eastland arrived for more of the same. At week's end, some 2,000 American Zonians, mainly employees of the Panama Canal Company...
...Icarus and Daedalus flew, "the ploughman stopped his work to gaze, and the shepherd leaned on his staff and watched them, astonished at the sight, and thinking they were gods who could thus cleave...