Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hours earlier, the Parliament of Zimbabwe Rhodesia had met for the last time to rescind former Prime Minister Ian Smith's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence and return the colony to British sovereignty under its former name of Southern Rhodesia. The Union Jack will not wave over Salisbury for long: after next spring's elections, the Queen's proconsul will hand over power to the new leaders of an independent Zimbabwe...
Soames' historic arrival was actually a bold gamble. It had been hoped that it would crown 14 weeks of painstaking negotiations among representatives of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa's biracial Salisbury regime, the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance and the British government. Meeting at London's Lancaster House under the skillful chairmanship of British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the negotiators had hammered out important agreements on a new majority-rule constitution and a transitional plan leading to legal independence. A full cease-fire agreement, however, continued to elude the negotiators. The gamble was to send Soames into Salisbury...
...immediate result of Rhodesia's renewed legality was the lifting of the economic sanctions imposed by Britain after Rhodesia declared independence. The Carter Administration decided to follow suit and end U.S. sanctions too before Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's official visit to Washington this week. Nonetheless, the return of British sovereignty caused little rejoicing in Rhodesia. Among the country's 212,000 whites, a somber mood of surrender and betrayal combined with a strong distrust of British motives. Snapped a white Salisbury housewife: "The British are not here to return democracy to us. They are here...
...approached the representatives of ABC, CBS and NBC in Tehran with a tantalizing prospect: an interview with one of the hostages at the U.S. embassy. But there were catches. The networks would have to submit their questions in advance, broadcast the program live (to prevent any editing) in prime time, and allow Iranian students to make statements and ask questions of their...
...three networks found the conditions unacceptable. They continued bargaining, but only NBC was able to work out a deal: a taped interview in prime time using an Iranian camera crew and resident NBC Correspondents Fred Francis and George Lewis. A student spokesman who called herself Mary would make unedited opening and closing statements, but the newsmen did not have to clear their questions in advance. Said Tehran Bureau Chief Walter Millis: "That way we could control the interview, and if it really went off the wall, we could kill...