Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan," formulated during the U.S. Secretary of State's recent trip to southern Africa, to bring about black rule in Rhodesia within two years. But they disagreed as to what the plan specifically was. As spelled out in public by Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, Kissinger's formula would set up an interim government in which whites would share power with blacks-but would remain dominant during the changeover...
Overall, the formula seemed acceptable to most Rhodesians, blacks as well as whites. But it angered some Rhodesian black nationalists, as well as the five African "frontline" Presidents (of Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique and Angola) with whom Kissinger had been dealing. The five leaders met in Lusaka, Zambia, and denounced the settlement as outlined by Smith...
What was going on? Had Kissinger misled one side or the other? Had Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda and Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, to whom Kissinger had explained the formula, changed their minds? Kissinger-watchers noted that the Secretary had given Smith a written list of key points but showed nothing in writing to the African Presidents; Smith might easily have assumed that the black leaders had seen and approved the same paper, but that was not the case...
Foster has produced a disaster magnitude scale that factors in social disruption, physical damage and injuries, as well as deaths. By his criteria, China's earthquake last August rates a 9.0 score, making it the sixth worst disaster he has plotted. Under the Foster Formula, which does not distinguish between disasters wrought by man and those wrought by nature, the top five are World War II (11.1), the Black Death (10.9), World War I (10.5), Stalin's Great Purge of 1936-38 (10.2) and the 1923 earthquake that devastated Tokyo (9.1). Some rankings will come as a surprise...
Students are now often reckoned as a part of the Establishment. They are not only asking to be "counted in," but they are even adopting the accouterments deemed to constitute the American formula for success. Competition is the key word. "Work hard, clean up, learn from your elders, and success will be yours," they have been told. Courses are unerringly chosen according to their reported marketability...