Word: ivorization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from an eight-day fact-finding trip to Africa. He impressed both white and black leaders with his candor, youthful idealism and realistic understanding of the Rhodesian impasse. Rhodesian diplomats, who were angered by the cold aloofness of a team led in January by Britain's U.N. Ambassador, Ivor Richard, described Owen as "tough" and "refreshing." He is hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia-can persuade Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe of the anti-Smith Patriotic Front to attend the new conference. Last week Owen discussed his views on Rhodesia...
With that terse announcement, followed by a long sad sigh, British Negotiator Ivor Richard last week formally acknowledged what was already apparent. Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith had rejected a British proposal for achieving black majority rule within 14 months. That plan envisioned a 32-man interim government of blacks and whites, with a British "commissioner" at its head (TIME, Jan. 17). Since the commissioner would have a decisive vote and broad discretionary powers to alter the racial makeup of the group, Smith dismissed the idea as "political suicide." He insisted instead on Henry Kissinger's proposal...
...diplomatic shuttle, but not exactly in the Kissinger mode: no custom-fitted Air Force jet, no phalanx of aides, bodyguards and reporters. British Envoy Ivor Richard last week hopped from capital to capital in southern and eastern Africa in a modest chartered twin-engined Hawker Siddeley executive jet, arrived at airports with little fanfare and had only four Foreign Office staffers in tow. Richard, who is Britain's chief delegate to the United Nations, was desperately trying to breathe life into the seemingly paralyzed efforts to transfer power peacefully from Rhodesia's 271,000 whites...
...press conference: "I am convinced that in the end we will get a settlement to this problem." Other British diplomats are not so buoyant. Complained one last week: "It's a fearful slog. Both sides, black and white, are tossing tantrums and refusing to talk common sense. If Ivor gets anywhere with these adamant chaps he should have a medal...
...delegates were still unable to agree on the relatively simple matter of setting a formal date for independence (Rhodesia technically is still a British colony). The black nationalists were demanding independence in twelve months; the whites insisted that 23 months were necessary. Both sides had rejected Chairman Ivor Richard's compromise proposal of a 15-month transition. Meanwhile, Smith had flown back to Salisbury on Nov. 3, declaring he could not afford to waste time sitting around Geneva "twiddling my thumbs." In what seemed a calculated insult to the blacks, he left negotiations for his government in the hands...