Word: primed
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...rejection of the Camp David agreements. Assad's hostility was predictable. More worrisome to the Egyptian President was the fact that his moderate allies, particularly the Saudi Arabian royal family, had so far said little or nothing in his favor. Sadat last week sent his closest confidant, Deputy Prime Minister Hassan Tuhamy, to Geneva to call on King Khalid; the Saudi monarch was resting there on a flight from Riyadh to Cleveland, where he was to undergo heart surgery. Tuhamy reported back to Cairo with the ambiguous message that Khalid was "satisfied with our clarifications...
...battlefield toll mounted, hopes for a negotiated transition to black majority rule dimmed. The secret contacts in Zambia through which Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had hoped to persuade Guerrilla Leader Joshua Nkomo to join the multiracial interim government collapsed last month, after Smith accused Nkomo's men of slaughtering ten defenseless survivors from a civilian passenger plane shot down by the guerrillas. Discouraged U.S. diplomats conceded that the massacre had also dealt an all but fatal blow to the joint British-American plan for a peaceful Rhodesian settlement. As Nkomo has recently warned, "The only way left...
...Anglo-American effort is resumed, Nyerere cautioned, the U.S. and Britain must not underestimate the wiliness of the Rhodesian Prime Minister. Said Nyerere: "Everyone who has assumed that Smith is a fool, Smith has taken in. [Prime Minister Harold] Wilson tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed. [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed too. Don't try to be clever with Smith. Deal with him on the ground he has chosen: power. Gather power and overthrow him." Then, as the warm winds ruffled the coconut palms at his ocean...
WASHINGTON--The State Department is approving visits to the United States by Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia, and other members of the Rhodesian government, a Department spokesman said yesterday...
...enormous cache of scholarship on political leaders--presidents, tyrants, revolutionaries--and followers--the rabble, the masses, the voting public. Historians endlessly debate the role of the great man, the masses and of fate in the unfolding of history. And usually the advocate defends one of these forces as the prime mover in history, or throws up his hands, frustrated by the epic proportions of the conflict...