Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rhodesia moved a step closer last week to the transfer of political power from its 273,000 whites to majority rule. In London, British Foreign Secretary David Owen announced the outlines of a new U.S.-backed diplomatic initiative, aimed at obtaining agreement between Prime Minister Ian Smith's government and the rival black nationalist factions on a new constitution guaranteeing representation to the country's 6.3 million blacks. A jointly sponsored Rhodesian constitutional conference this summer will be postponed; instead, an Anglo-American "consultative group" will carry on bilateral negotiations with all parties likely to be involved...
...accepting the Owen plan, Smith again publicly committed his government to cooperation in the transition. Privately, however, in an interview last week with TIME Managing Editor Henry A. Grunwald and Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, he maintained a wary and often pessimistic view of the process. Excerpts...
...long-ignored detail with the personal, insider's touch almost makes the thing worthwhile. Grandpa Galbraith has been around for a long time; The Age of Uncertainty breaks no new ground in his own intellectual development. And you probably know much of the stuff he talks about already: Smith on the division of labor, Keynes on the role of government economic intervention, Khruschev on peaceful co-existence. But as the author never tires of pointing out, Galbraith had had at least a distant acquaintance with most of the outstanding figures in economics and politics for the last half-century...
...Definitely West Coast weather--East Coasters can't handle it," David Smith '79 said...
...Thomas Smith...