Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involved in the unsolved Rhodesian crisis. His basic goal: to convince the Presidents of the so-called front-line states, the two key black nationalists who head the Patriotic Front, and the black leaders who have accepted Prime Minister Ian Smith's internal settlement for Rhodesia that the main hope of avoiding a protracted civil war remains the Anglo-American proposals. Both Smith's Salisbury agreement and the Anglo-American plan predicate eventual black-majority rule. The difference is that Washington and London-neither of which really trusts Smith's assurances of positive transition-would step...
...Afrikaner suffers from an acute persecution complex. He believes his existence is threatened and that there is a worldwide conspiracy, piloted by the forces of international Communism, which has as its main objective to drive him into the sea. Therefore, his sensitivity must always be borne in mind, and he must be left with ample space in which to maneuver with dignity. Driven into a corner, the Afrikaner will take up arms and will leave a trail of destruction all along the way. What is more, he will leave this country in chaos and ruin...
...privately. Such a move would have a precedent. When the son of former Socialist Party Leader Francesco de Martino was kidnaped in Naples last year, his release was secured with a reported ransom of $880,000, raised by wealthy party backers and a subscription among the membership. The main difference is that the De Martino kidnaping turned out to be the work of common criminals, while the Red Brigades have shown less interest in ransom money than in fomenting terror and mocking police efforts to capture them. At week's end, even as the trial of 15 Red Brigades...
Today Abbé Pierre lives quietly in one of the 8,000 low-rent apartments that his organization has built in the Paris area. Though the movement runs summer camps and ships supplies and cash to 32 countries, the main focus remains self-sustaining communes. Besides the 52 in France (membership 1,500), there are 100 abroad. While the communes are secular, there is a heavy emphasis on community. The communards get room, board and a stipend, but their main reward is in self-respect. A sign in the Orléans commune reads: "We will never agree to accept...
Greenfeld writes in a small, phoneless office over a bank on the main street in Pacific Palisades. "It's a full-service bank. I use their Xerox machine, and in an emergency the branch manager takes messages." The writing day can often be interrupted by the need to pick up Noah at his special school or drive him to the day care center that Foumi organized and directs as a volunteer. For a writer it is sometimes an untenable position. "But then," says Greenfeld, "life itself is an untenable position...