Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington, meanwhile, played a key role in some behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at getting the financial guarantees that might help resolve the crisis. Although it has avoided any direct role in the negotiations, the Carter Administration is considering a multinational "Southern Africa Aid Package," which would provide between $1 billion and $2 billion to Zimbabwe Rhodesia and the neighboring states that have suffered from the war. State Department officials insist that this is a broad-based "agricultural and development fund" and not a "buy-out-the-whites scheme." Still, the initiative provided assurance that substantial U.S. aid would...
...players in the military, "Jakie" was charged in 1941 with welding the ragtag tank, infantry and artillery units of the fledgling armored forces into an effective tool for modern, mechanized warfare. In 1943 Devers became European theater commander for U.S. forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower; he later helped direct the Allies' North African and Italian campaigns and plan the Normandy invasion. In 1945 Devers succeeded General Joseph W. Stilwell as commander of U.S. Army ground forces. He retired four years later...
...score became 2-0 with 25:02 remaining on the clock as Harvard tallied a goal that might have been called "While Tigers Sleep." John Sanacore took a free kick from the left-wing and an apparently unmarked Michael Smith raced towards the far post to direct a beautiful diving header just inside the post...
Fortunately, the refs' sight difficulties had nothing to do with the final result. What coach George Ford termed his team's "quicker, more direct" attack had earned its fourth straight victory...
...from the Clamshell Alliance, however, see the move toward pressuring companies invested in nuclear power as something more than just an effective means of promoting anti-nuke feeling. Instead they see it as a broadening of the movement from its initial focus on halting the nuclear energy through occupations--direct action--to measures involving economics...