Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhodesia. For years black nationalists have been divided between relative moderates, such as Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, and the more extreme forces, which now call themselves the Patriotic Front, headed by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. The moderates, while willing to accept a gradual transfer of power, have also been insisting that black Rhodesians be allowed to choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets, then approved...
Panama. "It's a foregone conclusion," said one Latin American diplomat. "The treaty [by which the U.S. will transfer sovereignty over the Canal Zone to Panama] is almost signed. Carter's desire to get a treaty has changed everything. The screaming is over...
...difficult to ask the South Africans to risk so much. Yet if they fail to move, they risk still more. Even if they manage to delay the inevitable for a generation or more, they will simply transfer the burden to their offspring. They may buy time for themselves, but they will doom their own children to the terrible battle with the children of Soweto...
...Brandeis opening, director Gile had not elicited from his cast the remarkable ensemble precision that characterized his Goodspeed revival of Kern's Very Good, Eddie two seasons ago (which I saw in its Broadway transfer) and of Hirsch's Going Up last summer (which I caught on its home stage). But one must take into account the fact that the cast was in strange surroundings, and, further, that three of the important roles were assumed here by players who had not done them in Connecticut. In this respect, Gile's guilt will doubtless become Gile's gilt...
...different direction. The government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced that it was taking a 34% participation in Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1976 sales: $1.2 billion) without compensating the company's two owners, Dassault and his 52-year-old son, Serge. The stock transfer will be covered by canceling debts that the company owes the state. Nonchalant, in the family tradition, Serge said: "I don't see what the state gains by taking part of the company...