Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have involved tremendous risks. Britain would then have been virtually obliged to recognize the cooperative Muzorewa regime, lift sanctions and oversee elections without Patriotic Front participation. That course would not only have angered the front-line and Commonwealth states, it could also have provoked an escalation of the war and possible intervention by Communist bloc countries and South Africa. But by facing down the guerrillas last week, Carrington won big on a high-stakes gamble...
...formidable difficulties ahead cannot obscure the reality that emerged from last week's crisis: after years of bloodshed and fruitless diplomatic maneuvers, the warring parties had finally agreed upon a majority-rule constitution. Whatever hazards lie ahead, that indispensable foundation has been laid, and the prospect of a peaceful settlement looms somewhat larger on the horizon. Despite their divergent views on the shape and form of the future Zimbabwe government, neither side relishes the alternative of all-out civil war...
...front-line diplomat put it last week, "War is about life and death, but a parliament...
...stepped in, it would have been very difficult to move on this question. The war is about land, and the British were protecting the settler element's right to keep land to themselves. But this does not mean we want to rob the white settlers of their land. The whites are an essential part of the country and therefore they must have some land as citizens. Only that land that is not fully utilized will be made available to other people. This arrangement would affect perhaps half of the white-controlled land. Private ownership is a foreign ideology...
...This is the most crucial stage and also the most difficult to handle. We're not just dealing with the shape of the transitional arrangements, but with the end of the war. With two armed military forces facing each other, it's not going to be easy to reach a ceasefire. What happens to the men? What happens to their equipment...