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Thus the pressure is increasing on the Executive Council to come to some kind of terms with the Patriotic Front. There is also pressure from London and Washington for all parties involved in the Rhodesian dispute to attend a conference to be held under Anglo-American sponsorship somewhere outside the country...
...considered before any changes are made. On creating women bishops, Lambeth gave a yellow light: women can be raised to the episcopate only with overwhelming approval of the membership and after consultation with a newly created committee of Anglican archbishops. Said one observer: "The majority surprised everybody. Even Anglo-Catholics voted for it. They wanted to put up a solid front and demonstrate unity...
...plane that Boeing is looking for partners to help do the work and share the cost. In no other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime Minister James Callaghan discussed an Anglo-American aviation linkup. British Aerospace, a nationalized collection of airframe and weapon makers, is being courted by the European Airbus consortium and Boeing. As a start, Boeing wants British Aerospace to make the wings for its planned narrow-bodied, 150-passenger...
...supersonic is being developed at present. The Anglo-French Concorde, of which ten are now flying, is such a fuel-gulping money loser that no more are on order and five have been left unsold. NASA and U.S. planemakers are still conducting supersonic research on a modest scale, but an American SST is not expected before the 1990s, and then only if the world economy is buoyant...
...voted by the U.N. in 1966 and 1968 to isolate the white Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith after it refused to share power with the black majority. The Administration wanted no change in U.S. policy. It views the sanctions as a powerful lever to prod Smith to accept an Anglo-American plan for a comprehensive settlement. This plan calls for participation by all black factions, guerrillas based outside the country as well as moderate nationalists inside. But there has been a growing feeling in Congress that the Administration's commitment to this formula does not pay enough attention to important...