Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prize came at the right time," professor of Government Nadau Safran said yesterday. They have agreed on the large principles of a Middle Eastern settlement, but they're ensnared in minor details. The citation will encourage them to look beyond their immediate difficulties," he said...
...last week's sessions with Vance: "Smith maintains that everything is just fine, as though it could go on forever, even though his casualty rates, emigration and capital outflow are higher than ever. Our concern is that if Smith stays firm on the internal settlement, it is a recipe for disaster...
...would hear him out, Smith patiently insisted that his internal settlement fulfills the conditions of an agreement he made with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1976. In brief, Smith said, he agreed to majority rule for the breakaway British colony within two years; in return, the U.S. and Britain would recognize the legitimacy of his government and end the United Nations sanctions that have plagued Rhodesia's economy since 1966. "Our case is watertight," said Smith. "We cannot understand what is wrong...
...Front-Line States. [Samora] Machel [of Mozambique] and [Kenneth] Kaunda [of Zambia] want to end the Rhodesian problem even more than I do. U.S. and British recognition of the internal settlement would give them the out they are looking for. Kaunda said to me once, "If only the British government would have the guts to face up to its responsibility in settling the issue, while I would make a few unpleasant noises in public for a few days, that evening I would fall down on my knees and thank the good Lord." He wants it resolved desperately, as does Machel...
...week to find that yet another daily has apparently joined Rupert Murdoch's Post in reaching a separate peace with the city's striking press unions. The 24-page paper, selling for a rather extortionate newsstand price of $1 (the result of a costlier-than-expected union settlement, the paper explains in a frontpage notice), looks just like the Times, only more...