Word: gradualist
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During the early 1960s, Teng presided over a gradualist, agriculture-oriented, economic-recovery program that undid much of the chaos of Mao's Great Leap Forward project. Apparently he had some differences with Mao over economic policy. "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production," Teng declared in 1962 in a now notorious phrase, "any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice." At the same time, he also suggested that "the dictatorship be diluted and democracy be expanded," a remark that...
...President Hafez Assad was willing to negotiate a settlement but insisted that it be a once-and-for-all deal worked out in a Geneva conference. Then there were the moderates, headed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat who supports U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's gradualist approach-"a little more territory for a little more peace...
...three-hour call on Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. "You should invite me to the summit," joked the Secretary of State. "I've met more Arab heads of state than some Arab foreign ministers." Kissinger obviously will not be welcome at Rabat, but he is confident that his gradualist strategy will be put forward by President Anwar Sadat of Egypt...
...support of King Feisal, who was said to feel chagrined that his advice to the Egyptian President about ousting the Russians had been mistaken. Libya's hotheaded strongman Muammar Gaddafi (TIME cover, April 2) wanted to unite with Egypt immediately; Sadat persuaded him instead to accept a gradualist approach to the merger (partly as a result, Gaddafi has sulked and done little during the current fighting...
...Woodstock nation, the Wallace nation, and the liberals. But Woodstock was not the radical political convention that Revel calls it. Nor have dissenters forced the United States out of Vietnam. Nor does the fight over bussing indicate increasing racial harmony. Nor is half the country anxious for even a gradualist liberal revolution. Revel has declared victory even when the few skirmishes he chooses to analyze remain in doubt...