Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ghana organization hopes to win some concessions. At the urging of the Ghana and other protest groups, the islands' congressional delegation has sponsored legislation to compensate native Hawaiians for lands lost after annexation-something like the 1971 grant of $962.5 million to Alaska's natives in settlement of their land claims. In addition, Senator Daniel Inouye has proposed a bill that would force the Navy to stop bombing Kahoolawe...
...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...
...trouble with Smith's plan is that black Africa will not buy it. Across the Zambezi River in Lusaka, TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief David Wood talked with two of the black leaders most concerned with achieving a Rhodesian settlement: Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's most respected leaders, and Joshua Nkomo, perhaps the best known of the Rhodesian nationalists and co-leader (with Robert Mugabe) of the Patriotic Front...
Kaunda: 'I See No Settlement...
...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...