Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin the process of ending white minority rule. That evening Prime Minister Smith played host to the group at his home, accompanied by his new black colleagues on the council: Bishop Abel Muzorewa, Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau. Smith called on the U.S. to support his "internal settlement" and rebuked America for what he called its "obsession" with a proposed patriotic front government that would embrace guerrilla factions...
DELAY. Thanks to overcrowded, harried courts, lawyers can often find ways to protract a shaky case indefinitely. Postponements, recesses, objections, motions, depositions, unavailability of client or lawyer?the list of stalling techniques is endless. Sometimes the intent is to squeeze a cash-starved opponent into a disadvantageous settlement. Or it can be even more pernicious. In Chicago, an attorney for a notorious dope dealer won 72 postponements over four years on the ground that he had trials elsewhere. A judge finally tired of that game and ordered the trial to proceed; the jury needed only 30 minutes to return with...
...internal settlement has been criticized both at the U.N., where it was condemned by the Security Council, and in Britain, the U.S. and the so-called frontline states of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Botswana and Angola. The principal reason: its failure to include the leaders of the Patriotic Front, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, whose Soviet-and Cuban-backed guerrillas, poised along the Rhodesian border, are now believed to number 12,000. The fear is that Smith's limited solution will not lead to peaceful black rule but to a black-against-black civil war among the rival political...
...committed itself to majority rule the free world should "deliver the goods"-meaning that the Salisbury government should be given diplomatic recognition and that the twelve-year-old Rhodesian trade boycott should be dropped. But U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young repeated Washington's position in Zambia: that the settlement would get "very little, if any" U.S. support because it promised "something less than genuine majority rule...
...Executive Council suggested that there could be a "leadership role" in the new Rhodesian regime for Nkomo and Mugabe if they agreed to return to the country in peace. The chances for that seem remote, given the Patriotic Front's past denunciations of the internal settlement. But that agreement, Sithole maintains, is not subject to change. "We have generated new realities in this country," he says. "They have to be accepted as they...