Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flies off to Africa for a series of meetings with parties directly 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...
...believe that Washington's way offers no solution at all, are turning instead to the growing influence of Cuba and the Soviet Union. It was only three years ago, during their lightning advance across Angola, that Zambia's anxious President Kenneth Kaunda rushed to confer with Prime Minister John Vorster, describing the Communists as the 'plundering tigers of Africa.' What are those same tigers now doing right? Nothing very different. But at least they are candid about their own self-interest and know when to hand out the arms and shut...
...Zimbabwe people." Washington thus shares the view of the front-line leaders and the Patriotic Front that Smith's internal settlement is a clever form of tokenism that, in effect, ensures continuing white control of the military, the judiciary and the bureaucracy, even if a black Prime Minister is installed after elections...
...another step in this disturbing trend, In His Image is a prime example of what must be avoided as scientists work on the frontiers of genetic engineering. In this sense, Rorvik accomplishes what he set out to do. So read the book, think about the issues, but for heaven's sake, don't buy it. The man does not deserve to make a penny...
...salutes or state dinners at the White House. Oh, there was a private talk with President Carter and Vice President Mondale and a party at the British Embassy. But then Prime Minister James Callaghan was free to indulge himself: playing grandfather to Tamsin, 12, Alice, 9, and Patrick, 6. The P.M. with Wife Audrey had slipped quietly into Washington for their first visit with the children, their daughter Margaret and son-in-law Peter Jay since Jay became Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. last July. The family trooped off to see the Air and Space Museum, went sailing...