Word: front
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patriotic Front agrees to a ceasefire, but hazards remain...
...think anybody will turn back I now," said Britain's jubilant Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington. After 86 days of stop-and-go negotiations at the London Peace Conference, Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe agreed to a cease-fire that should end the seven-year-old civil war in the breakaway British colony. Although some important details remain to be worked out, the principal issues barring the way to peace for Zimbabwe Rhodesia were resolved; agreement on a new constitution and arrangements for the transition to elections had been reached in earlier talks at Lancaster House...
...Nkomo and Mugabe, Ramphal and the guerrilla chiefs examined each line of the deadlocked cease-fire proposals until a reasonable formula was found. Then they called Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, who is chairman of the Presidents of the so-called Frontline States.* Ramphal convinced hun that the Front would not be put at a disadvantage by the revised ceasefire formula...
...hotel corridors. partying, discussing, earnestly analyzing, wearing garish buttons and proclaiming their bizarre beliefs before wearied maids, bellhops and addled television producers. And later they went home and cranked out massive tomes on "The Societal Implications of the Vulcan Ethic." Nightly, or biweekly, or weekly, they sat in front of their tubes staring transfixed at the images of their devotion. And always in their heart of hearts they prayed for one thing: The Return. With Star Trek: The Motion Picture, they...
...graduate student told of the repercussions of speaking out. In her senior year here, she attended a dinner at a professor's home along with the professor's colleagues and graduate students. After the dinner, she says the professor humiliated her by "coming on to me sexually in front of his peers." The student talked to Walzer and others. Word got gack to the professor, who falsely accused her of taking official faculty action against him and told others in the department she was an hysterical woman, not to be trusted. When she requested a recommendation from...