Word: ian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Vance met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko nine times, painstakingly searching out the compromises that finally led to last week's SALT II agreement. Sometimes Vance had only a day to shift gears from negotiating with Moshe Dayan on the future of the West Bank or Ian Smith on the future of Rhodesia to bargaining with Gromyko on SALT. In an interview with TIME'S Strobe Talbott, Vance described the experience...
...Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, said yesterday he questions whether a secondary boycott of Rhodesian oil is appropriate now that Ian Smith has given in and is forming a coalition government...
Even a cursory examination of the facts shows the farcical nature of Ian Smith's "settlement." According to this arrangement, the whites control the key ministries (including the military and police), along with 28 per cent of the legislature (although whites make up less than four per cent of the population), thereby holding effective veto power over any significant legislation. Moreover, the most important black organizations--those which make up the Patriotic Front--are excluded from the government and denied all political rights to operate. Ian Smith has steadfastly refused to negotiate with guerilla leaders...
...with 90 per cent of the country under martial law (hence the undemocratic nature of the "elections" should be obvious). According to New York Times reports, the Patriotic Front has twice as many guerillas fighting within the country now as it had a year ago. In this situation the Ian Smith regime is desperate to gain political, economic, and indirect military support from the West...
...stand the Harvard Corporation has taken on this issue. After reading President Bok's four open letters on the role of the university, one might expect that the Corporation would at least remain neutral. One would expect that at the very least the Corporation would refrain from supporting Ian Smith. However, this is not the case...