Word: sideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reality is that the talks may be the last chance to achieve a peaceful solution to the war. After seven years of bloody fighting and more than 18,000 deaths, neither side has gained a decisive edge. Salisbury's 12,000-man army and air force, backed by 40,000 reservists, have killed thousands of guerrillas in attacks on base camps in Mozambique and Zambia, but without crippling the Patriotic Front; Nkomo and his partner Robert Mugabe now have an estimated 12,000 fighters operating inside Zimbabwe Rhodesia, almost double the number of a year ago. Tiring...
Another key goal of the conference is finding a formula for the installation of a peace-keeping force, probably supplied by Commonwealth nations, to supervise a truce until new elections can be held. If that compromise cannot be achieved, neither side has any alternative but to keep fighting it out on the battlefield, where no one has any hope of a victory...
...Thohoyandou, as tribal dancers raised clouds of red dust with their rhythmic exhortations to ancestral spirits. At the stroke of midnight, South Africa's top-hatted President Marais Viljoen strode down a red carpet to announce a "great historic event, the birth of a new state." At his side stood Chief Patrick Mphephu, 54, a small, diffident man with a fifth-grade education, who was soon to become the Executive President of the Republic of Venda, a Delaware-sized region tucked in the northeast corner of South Africa. As Venda's new four-color flag fluttered...
Dictatorship, like misery, loves company. Right-wing military rulers have enjoyed their longest runs side by side in Latin America...
...computing skills and the ability to think through problems. The assessment showed that the students have most difficulty with the reading and reasoning involved in word problems. About 60% of the teen-agers knew that the area of a rectangle equals its length times its width, and that the sides of a square are equal. But less than half of them could reckon the area of a square when the length of only one side was labeled. Two-thirds of the 13-year-olds could calculate the "distance around" a pictured rectangle with two dimensions given; only a third could...