Word: transfers
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Thus it was almost natural last May that Carter would ask Watson to direct his ambitious plans for the transfer of power. When Watson sent his first memorandum, Carter wrote across the top of it: "Proceed and be bold." Watson really liked that. And Carter knew his man. As the President-elect's principal in Washington for the next ten weeks-and probably a lot longer-the bold Jack Watson will certainly take the boss's advice...
...lost in the marbled Council Chamber of Geneva's Palais des Nations. Once again, it seemed, peace or more war hung in the balance. Bitter political enemies in Rhodesia met face to face for the first time in what may be a last chance for a peaceful transfer of power from the ruling white minority to the black majority. Despite the mutual suspicion and distrust that permeated the chamber, the fact that the four leading black nationalists and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, a white, were willing to meet at all was at least one encouraging sign. Said Conference...
...common basis for the talks, as Richard emphasized, is that all sides now accept that Rhodesia is to become an independent country under majority rule within two years. But while the black delegations contend that all details for the transfer of power are up for negotiation, Smith insists that he came to Geneva solely to fill in the details of the so-called Kissinger plan, announced last September. According to Smith, Kissinger's scheme would set up a two-tier interim government in which whites would share power with blacks but would remain dominant during the changeover (TIME cover...
Whatever the new regulations, the HEW policy will probably not flood Harvard with students, Dr. Cheever said. Of the 6000 who annually choose to attend medical school abroad, he estimated that 1000 will apply for transfer. The students will then be distributed in groups of about ten to each of the American schools...
...eight other bantustans seem fairly justified in their unanimous condemnation of Matanzima's decision to prostitute his people for the power Vorster's backing gives him. He defends the Transkei's independence, calling it an "epoch-making event that is the product of peaceful evolution and an orderly transfer of power to the people of the Transkei." But less than 45 per cent of the voters turned out in the recent election in those constituencies where there was a contest, a fact that does not suggest the people of the Transkei are exactly carried away with their supposed newly found...