Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hawaiian bases. Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr., commander of the Third Pacific Fleet, pointedly notes: "The military in Hawaii is a billion-dollar-a-year business. A significant part of that business is generated because Navy and Marine forces are here to train, and Kahoolawe is a prime training site...
...Prime Minister Ian Smith proceeded last week with his grand plan for solving the Rhodesian crisis-on his own terms. First, he aims to win the country's Aug. 31 elections in order to head off a threat to his government from a new, right-wing splinter group (TIME, Aug. 1). Then, with his mandate reinforced, he hopes to create a moderate, multiracial government in Rhodesia that would include both whites and some conservative black nationalists-but not leaders of the radical Patriotic Front with its guerrilla army...
...Prime Minister archly dismissed the British and American argument that any future Rhodesian government must include representatives of the Patriotic Front ("I'm right and they're wrong"). Once he has achieved what he calls an "internal settlement," Smith argues, "the guerrillas' support from the ground will fall away." But won't Rhodesian blacks demand to be in charge of their own affairs? "We will have to wait and see," Smith told McWhirter. "Maybe the most optimistic expectations are not going to coincide with practical realities of life...
...years ago, when you met Ian Smith and South African Prime Minister John Vorster at Victoria Falls, a peaceful negotiated settlement in Rhodesia seemed possible. Now there is a state of war. What went wrong...
Racial resentment against dark-skinned foreign workers-including expatriate American blacks-is spreading through Sweden, which has a slumping economy and rising unemployment. The prime targets are 6,000 or so Assyrians, mainly refugees from the civil...