Word: breakaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Britain's jubilant Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington. After 86 days of stop-and-go negotiations at the London Peace Conference, Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe agreed to a cease-fire that should end the seven-year-old civil war in the breakaway British colony. Although some important details remain to be worked out, the principal issues barring the way to peace for Zimbabwe Rhodesia were resolved; agreement on a new constitution and arrangements for the transition to elections had been reached in earlier talks at Lancaster House...
...people made mistakes on that one," Lau said after the game. "There's no way we should have allowed a breakaway with five seconds to go--especially...
Fowkes's tally at 3:03 of the second gave the Crimson a 2-1 lead, but a Bruin breakaway (during a Crimson power play) with five seconds left in the period evened the score again...
...another wrist shot strayed into the net for B.U. at 6:58, and though freshman Alex Lightfoot brought the crowd to its feet with a quick breakaway soon after the goal, she failed to tally for the Crimson...
...face broke into a broad grin. After ten weeks of touch-and-go negotiations at London's Lancaster House, Mugabe and his fellow guerrilla leader, Joshua Nkomo, had finally accepted a British-drafted plan for a transitional period leading to new elections and legal independence for the breakaway British colony. Endorsed two weeks ago by the biracial delegation of Salisbury's Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa, the plan will go into effect as soon as final agreement is reached on a cease-fire between the warring factions. At long last, an end to the seven-year-old civil...