Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assembly debated whether to hold the vote before or after Christmas vacation, but postponed a decision on that issue pending further discussion of the referendum...
While the soldiers hold off the guerrillas, Smith and his cohorts are making sure that the white minority will hold many of the strings of power in the domestic settlement for transition to black rule. The provisional accord Smith signed this spring with three black moderates--Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and Jeremiah Chirau--guarantees whites a 28-member bloc in the future parliament, enough seats to block any constitutional changes. An equally significant clause promises that whites will retain control of the national army, police force, and civil service for at least ten years. Blacks will...
...moderates and the Front; in fact, even relations between Nkomo and Mugabe have been somewhat less than cordial, and there are hints that the two might pit their armies against each other in competition for total control of an independent Zimbabwe. Neither of the guerrilla leaders will promise to hold elections before proclaiming an independent black-ruled state...
ULTIMATELY, most factors point to the dissolution of white rule, although this dissolution will be slow in coming. It is not likely that peaceful black rule will follow, however. Despite his strength, Smith cannot hold out indefinitely, especially since his white constituents are leaving in massive numbers: 1490 whites took the "chicken run" out of the country in September, and 11,000 have left since January. Unfortunately, whites are taking with them much of the technical expertise and capital--the latter smuggled out despite restrictions--that will be needed to run a future majority-ruled black state. Escalated guerrilla attacks...
Back at the turn of the centtaken hold of Harvard's athletic program, as The Gameapproached its silver anniversary. There was talk ofbuilding a stadium, replacing Soldiers Field's hazardouswooden stands with a more grandiose home for the Crimsongridders; but President Eliot feared the proposed concretearena would lie like a dormant white monster when thefootball fad faded...