Word: owen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advance people, and then the TV people and newspaper and magazine reporters, and next the curious from other towns, and finally the firemen and troopers and deputies from other towns too. One TV crew got up at 5 a.m. to video-tape a Delta sunrise, and in front of Owen Cooper's house on Grand Avenue, for which Mr. and Mrs. Cooper bought new carpets, drapes and sheets for their overnight visitor, I sighted a TV crew shooting another TV crew at work...
Rhodesia moved a step closer last week to the transfer of political power from its 273,000 whites to majority rule. In London, British Foreign Secretary David Owen announced the outlines of a new U.S.-backed diplomatic initiative, aimed at obtaining agreement between Prime Minister Ian Smith's government and the rival black nationalist factions on a new constitution guaranteeing representation to the country's 6.3 million blacks. A jointly sponsored Rhodesian constitutional conference this summer will be postponed; instead, an Anglo-American "consultative group" will carry on bilateral negotiations with all parties likely to be involved...
...accepting the Owen plan, Smith again publicly committed his government to cooperation in the transition. Privately, however, in an interview last week with TIME Managing Editor Henry A. Grunwald and Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, he maintained a wary and often pessimistic view of the process. Excerpts...
...foreign affairs and economics ministers. Vance and Blumenthal thus flanked Carter, while experts like National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss were on call nearby. Between the meetings, ministerial-level officials conferred on special problems. Vance, for instance, huddled with British Foreign Secretary David Owen on strategy for a peaceful solution to the racial troubles in Rhodesia...
...conference does get off the ground, much of the credit will belong to its prospective chairman, British Foreign Secretary David Owen, 38. Last week the neurologist-turned-diplomat returned to London from an eight-day fact-finding trip to Africa. He impressed both white and black leaders with his candor, youthful idealism and realistic understanding of the Rhodesian impasse. Rhodesian diplomats, who were angered by the cold aloofness of a team led in January by Britain's U.N. Ambassador, Ivor Richard, described Owen as "tough" and "refreshing." He is hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola...