Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several observers had criticized the sacking of Moses before a suitable replacement was found. Fortunately, it didn't take much to coax Barnaby out of retirement...
John M. "Jack" Barnaby '32, coach of the men's squash and tennis teams for 36 years until his retirement in 1976, will return to Harvard to take the reigns of the women's squash team this season...
...underway, the Salisbury government launched a "pre-emptive" strike against Mugabe's troops in Mozambique, blowing up fuel dumps and radar stations and killing 300. When the Salisbury representatives arrived in London, the Front delegates responded by branding Muzorewa and his associates "criminals" and refusing to shake hands or take tea with them. In return, Muzorewa declared that he would protect his people from "wanton dictators in the making" such as Nkomo and Mugabe. Both delegations insisted they had come to negotiate with the British government, not with each other...
Whatever the obstacles to a settlement, however, there are also national and international pressures for peace. One way for Muzorewa to regain his domestic popularity, for instance, would be to take credit for a reasonable peace settlement. The African front-line states, whose populations, border areas, and economics have been ravaged by the war, would also welcome peace, but politically they have too much at stake to end the war for a shabby settlement. The present Zimbabwe constitution--in which whites control the courts, military, police and civil service, hold enough guaranteed parliamentary seats to block constitutional changes, and receive...
Margaret Thatcher and her administration also stand to gain considerably from a peace settlement, and to lose if the London conference collapses. For one thing, Thatcher needs a foreign policy triumph to take public minds off the Irish situation, the poor state of the economy, and the harshness of cutbacks and austerity measures imposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe. For another, she would like to associate her administration with a progressive African policy in order to outflank the Labor party, which had been traditionally more interested in the fight against apartheid. Further, the Tory leadership would like...