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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coach Peter Felske was forced to make several adjustments in his line-up to compensate for two key absences...
Heading straight for the cockpit is a habit that Jones acquired during his 37 years in the Air Force. But he is no mere hot pilot. Cool, meticulous, low-key and dogged, Jones typifies the new breed of military managers. Explains a senior Pentagon aide: "The era is over of flamboyant combat heroes rising to the top of the military...
...countries have been urging their Patriotic Front wards to negotiate a settlement of the costly seven-year war. Frontline leaders were shocked by Carrington's strong-handed tactics and feared that the success of the talks was being "jeopardized" by a mere technicality. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, a key sponsor of the Lancaster House talks, invited the other front-line Presidents to an emergency summit at Dares Salaam to seek a way out of the apparent impasse. The meeting fully supported the guerrillas on the land question and made a conciliatory plea for both sides to "move...
Washington, meanwhile, played a key role in some behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at getting the financial guarantees that might help resolve the crisis. Although it has avoided any direct role in the negotiations, the Carter Administration is considering a multinational "Southern Africa Aid Package," which would provide between $1 billion and $2 billion to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the neighboring states that have suffered from the war. State Department officials insist that this is a broad-based "agricultural and development fund" and not a "buy-out-the-whites scheme." Still, the initiative provided assurance that substantial U.S. aid would...
...key to the Rhodesian response may ultimately lie in the hands of Lieut. General Peter Walls, commander of Salisbury's security forces, who flew to London last week to join the talks. A tough soldier who has directed the relentless seven-year fight against the guerrillas, Walls is unlikely to permit the dismantling of his 52,000-man force, much less its integration with the 40,000-man Patriotic Front forces...