Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power should be encouraged. Nyerere and Machel accused Nkomo of trying to reach a private agreement with Smith at the expense of Mugabe, and insisted that any negotiation should be conducted through the British government as the legal colonial power in Rhodesia. At one point during the acrimonious nine-hour meeting, Nkomo shouted: "I haven't come here to be attacked...
Britain's P.M. watchers had been expecting Callaghan to move ever since the sagging Liberal Party walked out on the 17-month-old "Lib-Lab" pact in August, taking with it its 13 crucial parliamentary votes. That left Labor nine votes short of a majority-and, in the opinion of most analysts, with little choice but to go to the polls. Instead, Callaghan evidently patched together a working majority by bargaining for the 14 yeas and nays held by Welsh and Scottish Nationalists. These extra votes should enable Callaghan to survive a Tory test of confidence in November, when...
...Begin an hour before rival United Press International had a copy. A Baltimore Sun reporter filed the news that when Sadat prays toward Mecca, he is actually facing Baltimore. And one Israeli correspondent, lacking any other sign of progress, timed Carter's and Begin's initial embrace (nine seconds). Sadat got a longer hug (13 seconds) from Carter, he reported, but Begin's was more "intense...
...class of Nieman Fellows also includes two "visiting Niemans" who will spend less than the standard nine-month duration involved in the Nieman curriculum...
...loss left the Dodgers eight games ahead of Cincinnati and nine and one half in front of San Francisco as the Reds crushed the Giants, 7-1, yesterday...