Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battlefield toll mounted, hopes for a negotiated transition to black majority rule dimmed. The secret contacts in Zambia through which Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had hoped to persuade Guerrilla Leader Joshua Nkomo to join the multiracial interim government collapsed last month, after Smith accused Nkomo's men of slaughtering ten defenseless survivors from a civilian passenger plane shot down by the guerrillas. Discouraged U.S. diplomats conceded that the massacre had also dealt an all but fatal blow to the joint British-American plan for a peaceful Rhodesian settlement. As Nkomo has recently warned, "The only way left...
...five black "frontline states" (Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola and Botswana) that want to erase the last vestiges of white rule in southern Africa, Nyerere's support for efforts to bring peace to the area is pivotal. Because of Nyerere's staunch support for liberation movements, Smith has unfairly dubbed him "the evil genius on the Rhodesian scene." That sobriquet overstates Nyerere's influence with the guerrillas; it also fails to convey the Tanzanian leader's desire for peace...
...Dodgers scored in the second when Ron Cey came home on a double by Bill Russell. They rallied in the third for three runs when Reggie Smith, Steve Garvey and Cey connected on back to back hits. Garvey scored once in the eighth, slugging his third homer of the playoffs...
...Sandy F. Smith, Jr. '80, the one student who accompanied Miller to Maitgnon High School in North Cambridge for the beginning of the program yesterday said prospective applicants would probably" have been more at ease if they had spoken only to the student recruiter, rather than to both students and admissions officials. Individual student recruiters decide the extent to which contact is made, Smith added...
...Reggie Smith's rocket throw from right which held Phillie leadoff hitter Mike Schmidt to a single on a blast off the wall in the first, and Garry Maddox's baserunning blunder in the seventh guaranteed the shutout...