Word: tanzanian
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...former champ, who was hurt to discover that Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere would not receive him, threatened to call off his trip. Said he: "If I'm to be looked at as an Uncle Tom or a traitor or someone against my black brothers, I want out 'cause that's not my purpose...
...climax was almost preordained, and yet it came with surprising speed. After four days of debate had passed and 74 delegates had followed each other to the speaker's podium of the United Nations General Assembly, it was now time to vote. The Assembly's Tanzanian president, Salim Ahmed Salim, invited the 152 delegations to record their votes on two electronic boards behind the rostrum. The boards suddenly lit up as the delegates pushed the buttons at their desks-green for yes, red for no, amber for abstention. After just three minutes, Salim coolly revealed the outcome...
...governor has also been attacked for violating the peace settlement by allowing a 250-man South African army unit to remain just inside the border at Beitbridge to protect the vital rail bridge Unking the two countries. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere made blustering threats to break off relations with Britain unless Soames ousts Pretoria's troops and stops deploying the Rhodesian security forces...
...under severe economic pressures, these countries have been urging their Patriotic Front wards to negotiate a settlement of the costly seven-year war. Frontline leaders were shocked by Carrington's strong-handed tactics and feared that the success of the talks was being "jeopardized" by a mere technicality. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, a key sponsor of the Lancaster House talks, invited the other front-line Presidents to an emergency summit at Dares Salaam to seek a way out of the apparent impasse. The meeting fully supported the guerrillas on the land question and made a conciliatory plea for both...
...line states (Tanzania, Botswana, Angola, Mozambique, Zambia), on which the guerrillas depend for most of their support. Faced with serious economic difficulties at home, the front-line leaders have been anxious for an end to the long and costly war and have not been shy about arm twisting. Warned Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere in London's New Statesman: "If any wing of the Patriotic Front should develop doubts or hesitations about fighting such an open election, [I would] disown them and expect the rest of Africa to do the same." In much the same way, the Salisbury delegation...