Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basis for Settlement. The tragedy is that only a few days before, a solution to the long Rhodesian crisis had seemed almost within grasp. Meeting on board the British cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had taken only two days to hammer out a "working document" that, Wilson announced, "should serve as the basis for a settlement...
...would be lifted, political prisoners freed and "normal" political activity permitted. The Rhodesian Parliament, whose hard-line white-supremacist majority might try to block the new constitution, would be dissolved and all legislative powers handed over to British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs, pending new parliamentary elections within four months. Smith himself would continue as interim Prime Minister, but half of a new "broad-based" Cabinet would be chosen from outside his ruling Rhodesian Front Party, and two members would be blacks...
...Abominably Dishonest." The danger was that Britain might lose control of the punishment. Now that the matter had been hauled to the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations were demanding far tougher measures against Rhodesia. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie called for troops to throw out the Smith regime. Zambian Foreign Minister Simon Kapwepwe took the floor of the Security Council to rage that Britain was "abominably dishonest, wicked, hypocritical and racist." He demanded a total economic blockade against Rhodesia and any nation that dared trade with...
...send Third Baseman Clete Boyer (salary: $27,000) to the Atlanta Braves, for a minor-league outfielder named Bill Robinson. That left the Yanks with an excess of outfielders and no third baseman. So off to the St. Louis Cardinals, in exchange for much-traveled Third Baseman Charley Smith, went Roger Maris-the man who broke Ruth's mark by clouting 61 homers in 1961. A natural loner who was more annoyed than pleased by fame and had been hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised. "I can't complain," he shrugged...
...injured student cannot sue a public school district. Hurt during a required high school wrestling class, Terry Lee Smith filed a $35,000 damage suit against his Ray town, Mo., school district. By barring the suit, the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the doctrine of "sovereign immunity," which is rooted in the ancient adage that "the king can do no wrong." Thus, no American Government or its political subdivisions, including school districts, can be sued without its specific consent. Though some do consent, most states insist that school immunity is necessary to prevent public funds from being diverted to private plaintiffs...