Word: rhodesian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here to be hopeful," declared Lord Goodman, Britain's portly envoy to the breakaway colony of Rhodesia, as he flew into Salisbury for the third time this year. But after two days of talks with Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his Cabinet, Lord Goodman was optimistic. Nearly six years after Smith made a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, the Rhodesians and the British seemed to have made progress toward a compromise that might restore Rhodesia to colonial status-if only temporarily. The chance of a settlement, according to London diplomatic sources, stood at perhaps...
...Formula. Though the details remained secret, these terms were based on five key points: 1) Rhodesia's 5,000,000 Africans will be permitted to make "unimpeded progress" toward majority rule over a period of at least 30 years, 2) the Rhodesian legislature will pass no new laws of segregation or suppression, 3) the political status of Africans-who outnumber whites by more than 20 to 1-will be raised by degrees, with the help of British grants of $12 million a year for African education and economic development, 4) the Rhodesians will work toward eliminating racial discrimination...
Singapore. The Israelis were happy because they expect stronger support from the Tories, and the white regimes in southern Africa were jubilant because the Tories are committed to making a last try for a peace settlement with the Rhodesian rebels and to selling weapons to the South Africans...
Died. Hortense Powdermaker, 69, a noted anthropologist whose studies ranged from Stone Age Melanesians and Rhodesian copper miners to Mississippi blacks and whites and Hollywood moviemakers; of a heart attack; in Berkeley, Calif. "Hollywood shouts to be satirized-I want to understand it," she said before heading West in 1947; three years of research produced The Dream Factory, that depicted a totalitarian society in which people were property, and power an end in itself...