Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time and place for negotiations that would pave the way for black majority rule. It floundered because Smith and most of his 273,000 fellow white Rhodesians do not want to yield power. In a surprise development, South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrived at the falls-Vorster to put pressure on the whites and Kaunda on the blacks to reach a compromise. Both men were concerned that otherwise a savage civil war would erupt and spill into their countries. As one summit participant put it, the two leaders "first urged, then pleaded and finally...
...problems are on the other side." Later he groused: "I believed I was talking to normal people, but these chaps are a little unnormal at the moment." Shortly before midnight a glowering John Vorster stormed out of the railway car and left for home. He was soon followed by Kenneth Kaunda. As the meeting adjourned at midnight, Smith seemed positively elated by the prospect of its failure...
...fortunes or his own prospects were most favorable. In their own lives people are apt to choose, in retrospect, their young adult years. Perhaps this is why some people even fondly remember the Great Depression. They argue that material luxury is not the only test of wellbeing. Kenneth Clark, the black educator and psychologist, recalls that in the Depression, "for the first time there was equality in deprivation. Suffering was democratic." He remembers, too, the ferment, the "curious social and political optimism." For others, the more lasting picture of the Depression will be those haunting photographs of the gaunt faces...
...raised those problems last week about the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy was not some paranoid conspiracy hunter but Kenneth Hahn, a member of the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. The occasion for his questions was the board's unanimous vote to have the county counsel join in a new assessment of the evidence in Kennedy's murder...
...staffs find it easier to control troubled or obstreperous children when they are heavily sedated. Sometimes the results can be tragic. A North Carolina doctor and his wife blame the death of their retarded daughter last June on an overdose of Thorazine administered in a state institution. Education Researcher Kenneth Wooden, who recently visited juvenile facilities in 30 states as part of a Ford Foundation research project, charges that "thousands of children have been placed in human warehouses where hard drugs are administered like candy...