Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks went to the polls, Washington and London face the agonizing dilemma of whether or not to recognize the new regime and lift economic sanctions against Rhodesia. After three days of talks in London between U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the new British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, the two governments last week reached a practical conclusion: for the moment, do nothing...
...send three new emissaries to southern Africa. One will concentrate on the problem of Namibia (South West Africa), another will be dispatched to a number of African capitals to discuss the Rhodesian question. The third, Assistant Under Secretary Derek Day, will go to Salisbury in an effort, as Lord Carrington put it, to develop "the closest possible contacts with Bishop Muzorewa and his colleagues." This fact-finding mission will probably last until after the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, in early August, thereby relieving the Thatcher government of the need to take any kind of action...
...poem "Ode on Venice," Lord Byron prophesied a time "when thy marble walls/ Are level with the waters." By 1969, after nearly two decades of economic boom, the 19th century English poet's prediction seemed to be coming all too true. To slake the thirst of new industries on the mainland, some 20,000 wells were dug, tapping the water table that helps cushion Venice's more than 100 canal-cut islands. As a result, the fabled city of palaces and churches, frescoes and piazzas, began to sink at a frightening rate, gauged by scientists...
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was due to be in London for three days this week, primarily to discuss the Rhodesian problem with the new British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington. Both men will be scratching hard for some new ideas. Indeed, one Foreign Office veteran wonders if either Carrington or Vance will say to the other, "Have you thought up any dodge that I haven't thought...
Vance's first meeting, scheduled for today with British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, is expected to be dominated by the dilemma facing both governments over Rhodesia...