Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vance met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko nine times, painstakingly searching out the compromises that finally led to last week's SALT II agreement. Sometimes Vance had only a day to shift gears from negotiating with Moshe Dayan on the future of the West Bank or Ian Smith on the future of Rhodesia to bargaining with Gromyko on SALT. In an interview with TIME'S Strobe Talbott, Vance described the experience...
...Carter Administration is coming under increasing pressure to adopt the shortsighted position of support for continued white domination in Rhodesia. In a shocking display of cynicism and ignorance about Africa, the Senate recently voted to endorse the "internal settlement" and the so-called "elections" engineered by Prime Minister lan Smith. Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas, in opposing the Sentate bill to send an observer team to those "elections," compared Senate recognition of the white-dominated regime to the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, which gave Congressional support to the escalation of the Vietnam...
Even a cursory examination of the facts shows the farcical nature of Ian Smith's "settlement." According to this arrangement, the whites control the key ministries (including the military and police), along with 28 per cent of the legislature (although whites make up less than four per cent of the population), thereby holding effective veto power over any significant legislation. Moreover, the most important black organizations--those which make up the Patriotic Front--are excluded from the government and denied all political rights to operate. Ian Smith has steadfastly refused to negotiate with guerilla leaders...
...cent of the country under martial law (hence the undemocratic nature of the "elections" should be obvious). According to New York Times reports, the Patriotic Front has twice as many guerillas fighting within the country now as it had a year ago. In this situation the Ian Smith regime is desperate to gain political, economic, and indirect military support from the West...
While Porter sought out the supportive embraces of his girlfriend and Jay Smith fielded a barrage of questions from reporters, Parker wandered about silently, seeking out each of his athletes for a firm handshake and a typically brief word or two of wisdom...