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...seemed unlikely that Mugabe would have Smith arrested unless ironclad evidence could be found that the white leader was plotting to overthrow the government. Responding to Smith's charges, Mugabe observed: "I don't know whether Smith is qualified to speak about freedom. Those of us who were in detention and tortured cannot say." It was a pointed reminder that under the Smith regime Mugabe had spent ten years in prison...
...allowed by the Israelis, who now hold the territories, to form some kind of loose federation with Jordan. Reagan also called on the Arabs to recognize at long last Israel's right to exist. And, trying to soothe Israeli fears, the President declared that the U.S. had an "ironclad" commitment to the security of its ally...
...illusion" and quit the Broederbond. Last December, Smith gave public vent to his changed views with the publication of Storm-Kompas, a booklet in which 24 prominent Afrikaner clergy and writers attacked apartheid on religious and moral grounds. Smith was the volume's principal editor. Within the ironclad code of Afrikaner society, the book's viewpoint was shocking. The publication was only a warmup. Last month Smith was prominent among the 123 N.G. Church clergy who issued a fierce, indeed historic, protest against the regime's policies of racial separation and discrimination, terming them immoral, indefensible...
According to some accounts, Brezhnev collapsed moments later while still in the Tashkent airport. Other versions tell of a sudden mild stroke during the four-hour flight back to Moscow. The evidence: no film footage or newspaper photographs show his return to Moscow, a curious lapse from the ironclad rules of Kremlin protocol...
...agreement is not ironclad--not everyone has signed it, though the biggest guns in the battle against the development were among the negotiators and the first to agree. The Planning Board has yet to approve the new plans--and there are signs they may be wary of the changes. Fearing that Harvard Square is becoming too youth-oriented, some members of the board had hoped a large retail development in Parcel 1B might anchor the Square and slow the transition...