Word: cautious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juan Carlos' public pronouncements have been few and bland. Nonetheless, there are encouraging signs that the King may be a good deal less cautious than either Fraga or Arias, a timid holdover from Franco's days who is probably too venerable and rigid to be the kind of Premier that Juan Carlos needs at such a critical time. The King apparently recognizes that if Spain swings too far left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain...
Lack of wind and a cautious race committee sent the ICYRA Dinghy Championships (Nationals) into an extra day this week, forcing the Harvard sailing team to withdraw early because of a conflict with the exam schedule...
Given the intricacies of the proposals, reaction was generally cautious, although on balance favorable. Said a Kenyan official: "What's important is not Kissinger's specifics right now, but the evidence that the U.S. seems sincere about helping us with our crushing problems." Added an Iranian delegate: "Kissinger went a long way toward meeting the position of the poor nations...
...feuding with the President about military aid to Israel. The Vice President believes his stand on this issue can win him the presidential nomination and election in 1984, so he publicly proposes that the United States give Israel nuclear arms. This not only gets him in trouble with the cautious President (a cross between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Hugh Scott), but threatens to upset the fragile balance of world power. Spies and agents provocateurs appear on the scene...
Before the Princeton match got under way, no one would count Harvard out, but the team's optimism was cautious. "We have a chance," Barnaby predicted, "but they're undefeated in three years of Ivy League competition, so you've got to favor them until somebody beats them...