Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disillusioned with statist solutions and wanted a return to more conservative policies. At year's end her government could claim one notable diplomatic success. Under the skillful guidance of Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, leaders of both the interim Salisbury government and the Patriotic Front guerrillas signed an agreement that promised?precariously?to end a seven-year-old civil war and provide a peaceful transition to genuine majority rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. There were other indications of growing rationality in Africa, as three noxious dictators who had transformed their nations into slaughterhouses fell from power: Idi Amin was ousted...
...Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania raised legitimate questions?as well as much unnecessary hysteria?about how safe and useful nuclear power will be as a partial substitute for the imported oil that the eruption in Iran will help make ever more costly. The conclusion of a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union?more modest in scope than many Americans had urged, but basically useful to the U.S.?led to congressional wrangling that raised doubts about whether the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty will even be ratified in 1980. The SALT debate put a substantial strain on U.S.-Soviet relations...
Indeed no one expected Rhodesia's savage civil war to fade away quietly. In the first week following the signing of the cease-fire agreement, 80 Rhodesians were killed in continuing clashes and sporadic skirmishes between guerrillas and Salisbury security forces. Three Royal Air Force troops, members of the Commonwealth monitoring force, also died when their Puma helicopter crashed after accidentally striking a power line; they were the first casualties of Britain's sponsorship of the truce. In other provocations, guerrilla supporters were regularly abused by hostile blacks as well as by whites. On several occasions white police...
Nevertheless, for all the uncertainties, the all-parties agreement reached in London was showing signs of resilience. On the international front, the settlement continued to gain acceptance following the United Nations Security Council vote ending the economic sanctions it had imposed against Rhodesia in 1966. Last week the guerrillas' allies in the frontline African states (Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania and Botswana) underscored their own commitment to a durable peace. In quick succession, each of them ended its sanctions and reopened its borders to the embattled neighbor...