Word: hilgard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure on Rhodesia's Smith. In truth, he has been doing it for some time. Last year South Africa withdrew 2,000 of its paramilitary police from Rhodesia. Recently it pulled out 50 helicopter pilots, crew chiefs and technicians. Two weeks ago, South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller said Pretoria now regards the principle of black majority rule in Rhodesia as "acceptable." Privately, Vorster is said to believe Smith (a former R.A.F. pilot who Vorster feels is "refighting the Battle of Britain") must become more flexible. Vorster is prepared to "point out alternatives and offer advice" to the hardheaded...
...Pretoria government's first reaction was to recall U.N. Ambassador Roelofse F. ("Pik") Botha home for "urgent consultation." Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller announced that South Africa-a charter member of the U.N. and one of the few African nations that pays its dues-will freeze its annual $1.1 million contribution to the U.N. budget. The possibility of withdrawing from the U.N. was being debated in Pretoria last week, but the consensus seemed to be that such a move would be self-defeating. As one Johannesburg newspaper put it, as long as South Africa's enemies can shout...
Giving as an example the failure of the North Koreans to brainwash many of their G.I. war prisoners, Stanford Psychologist Albert Bandura asserts that control of human behavior on the scale advocated by Skinner is impossible. Psychologist Ernest Hilgard, also of Stanford, thinks control of mass behavior is theoretically possible but realistically improbable, because there are too many bright people who would never go along...
Market Problems. Meanwhile, Heath's new government was already slightly embarrassed by the hasty arrival of South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller, who flew to London for talks with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Tories assumed that Muller intended to remind them about their promise to end the Labor government's 1964 embargo on arms sales to South Africa. The Labor Party's National Executive warned Heath, however, that such action could "endanger the existence of the Commonwealth and flout the authority of the United Nations...