Word: geoffrey
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...crown. She is also head of the Commonwealth, a club of former British colonies, which some believe Thatcher is goading toward a full- scale crisis. The member nations' scorn of Thatcher's "negotiations, not sanctions" policy only deepened last week after an uninspiring meeting between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and South African State President P.W. Botha...
Meanwhile, Thatcher will pursue her last-ditch diplomatic initiative in an attempt to tame insistent calls for sanctions within the 49-member Commonwealth. Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe will head to Pretoria with a two-pronged message for Botha: release imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela and lift the ban on the African National Congress. Though Botha has agreed to meet with Howe, the flurry of diplomacy is not expected to change the State President's position. Warned Botha last week: "We are a strong, proud nation with the faith and ability to ensure our future. We are not a nation...
...crisis entered its fifth week, the Reagan Administration launched a review of its policy toward South Africa (see box), and the British government prepared to send its Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, on a trip to that country to try to arrange a dialogue between the Pretoria government and black leaders and seek the release of Nelson Mandela, the most prominent figure in the longoutlawed African National Congress, who has been in prison for 24 years. In the meantime, a fourth foreign journalist, West German TV Correspondent Heinrich Buettgen, was ordered to leave the country. When the local Foreign Correspondents...
...Geoffrey Wolff...
...crooks and his knowledge of what goes on in his hometown. But Adam's wife Clara and teenage son Ike have received a vivid impression of how scary the world can be. Worse is to follow, not only for the Dwyers but for everyone else who figures prominently in Geoffrey Wolff's fourth novel. Providence is a tangled tale, ensnarling a number of characters, including a cop and some robbers, who manage to complicate one another's lives in ways impossible to predict. Wolff does not always seem certain whether he is offering a straight thriller or an anatomy...