Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police retribution. Instead, they climbed on the bus that carried the visiting Americans and, standing in the aisle, spoke haltingly of their struggle for civil rights. Two days later, in an empty Port Elizabeth nightclub, with purple curtains and pedestals of flowers as a backdrop, South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster met with the same group to argue the cause of apartheid...
...group was able to question closely, and at length, a number of key figures who are trying to bring peace to their nations. Among the hosts of the traveling Americans: Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan, Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith and Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere...
...certainly right on top of events. After seeing Vorster and Soweto residents in South Africa, the travelers arrived in Rhodesia on the historic day that the nation's new executive council met for the first time to begin the process of ending white minority rule. That evening Prime Minister Smith played host to the group at his home, accompanied by his new black colleagues on the council: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Smith called on the U.S. to support his "internal settlement" and rebuked America for what he called its "obsession" with a proposed patriotic...
...There the Egyptian leader was presented with the original cover portrait of himself as TIME's Man of the Year for 1977. Sadat warmly received the Americans and insisted that he was still buoyed by "the spirit of perseverance" in striving to achieve peace with Israel. He accused Prime Minister Begin of maintaining the old divisions between their two countries that he had tried to overcome when he made his journey to Jerusalem. Asked if he had any regrets about making his peace initiative, Sadat said, "Never," and added, "There is no going back. I have chosen my fate...
...most humiliating injury was suffered by Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and his government. "I didn't sleep very well last night," admitted Fukuda after the disturbance. Irritated by the continuing demonstrations that have kept the completed airport idle since 1973-at a cost of $100,000 a day in maintenance and interest payments on construction loans -the Prime Minister had flatly declared that "Japan's prestige is at stake" and insisted that Narita would open for business in April. Now it could take months to repair the damage...