Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs on the horizon were anything but auspicious. Only two months after the end of a bloody civil war in Angola, Rhodesia was already caught up in the first skirmishes of a racial showdown as black liberation movements geared up to bring down the white racist regime of Ian Smith. Such was the perceived failure of American policy over the years to provide any semblance of support for black African aspirations that three countries Kissinger hoped to visit-Mozambique, Nigeria and Ghana-refused to have...
...spectacular cataract and straddles the borders of Zambia and Rhodesia, the Secretary stepped across a white line onto Rhodesian territory, then quipped, "At least now I know what the issues look like." The gesture, coming on the heels of a blast at Kissinger from Rhodesia's Ian Smith for not visiting Salisbury before criticizing his government, took on a slightly surreal quality when it turned out that it had all been prearranged two weeks before by Washington so that Rhodesian security guards would not fire on the Secretary when he stepped across the line...
...HEDRICK SMITH 527 pages. Quadrangle...
...measure of that interest that Hedrick Smith's The Russians has climbed almost instantly onto the bestseller list. By rights, it should be sharing the distinction with Robert Kaiser's Russia. Smith's work is more rigorously organized, richer in anecdote; Kaiser's a bit broader, more discursive, and given to larger generalization. Both books, superb exercises in political-travel journalism, give Russia what it has always lacked for Americans: a complicated human reality...
Playing at number one, Ron Himelman had a 42 front and 41 back for an 83. Dave Paxton and Chris Ball each turned in a 85, while Peter Smith and John Mallard struggled home with...