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...Patriotic Front leaders may also have little to gain from participation in election. If the Front agreed to a ceasefire, it would throw away its strongest card. President Julius Nyere of Tanzania reportedly believes that Nkomo and Mugabe would sweep free elections in an independent Zimbabwe; other observers are not so sure. It is possible that the long-standing military and political rivalry between ZAPU and ZANU, the two wings of the Front, might create confusion if Nkomo and Mugabe were to run together. Tribal rivalries would also play a role, since Nkomo is a Karanga and Mugabe a Zezeru...
...have escaped the Bolshevik assassins in 1918; undying interest has given wide hearings to several claimants to the identity of Anastasia. The divergent ideological fevers of mid-century America guaranteed that the Alger Hiss perjury case would stay effectively open right along with the case of the executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The arguments in both trials are still thundering forth in such books as Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein (against Hiss) and We Are Your Sons by Robert and Michael Meeropol (for the Rosenbergs, who were indeed the Meeropols' parents). There is always...
...section of Newark. His story is based on a family embarrassment, a tale of money, lawsuits and maternal sacrifice that upsets his parents and the pillars of their community. "Can you honestly say that there is anything in your short story that would not warm the heart of a Julius Streicher or a Joseph Goebbels?" asks the disappointed judge who had once written a glowing recommendation for Nathan's college entrance application...
Despite the bellicose rhetoric, Commonwealth leaders remained relatively optimistic. Zambia's Kaunda implied that the Patriotic Front's reaction was little more than posturing, explaining: "Just now, various parties must react in a certain way." His colleague, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, said flatly: "The Patriotic Front [leaders] are going to a constitutional conference called by the decolonizing power." Nyerere suggested, however, that the British government might have a much harder time getting the Muzorewa-Smith bloc to the conference table. Snapped back Mrs. Thatcher: "If Julius Nyerere can deal with his problem," i.e., producing the guerrilla leaders...
...breakthrough came after Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere called on Britain to take the lead in proposing a new Rhodesian constitution, calling an all-parties conference and holding new elections under Commonwealth auspices...