Word: hardens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the week Aquino seemed to harden her stance against the rebels, who have refused to discuss a cease-fire since Olalia's murder. Said the President: "We shall never be slaves again -- not to the Communists, who did nothing to help us recover our democracy, nor to the sad remnants of the right who hanker to be our masters again." In the next six weeks the President must continue to reassert her authority in a way that will satisfy the nation and dissipate the rebellious mood within the armed forces...
This clash over what must come first may harden. The United Democratic Front, the largest apartheid coalition, which claims more than 600 organizations with 2 million members, now calls for nothing less than the surrender of the South African government. In a memorandum to European Community governments on the eve of British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's visit last week, the U.D.F. declared that "there is no possibility of peace and the construction of a democratic government while the Nationalist Government remains in power...
Reagan has been following a go-slow regimen so that his body's "cement" can harden properly after major surgery last July for a cancerous polyp in his bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...
...been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full of C-130 transport aircraft parts and satellite scanners. "The Russians are sweating," declares Customs Service Commissioner William von Raab. "They used...
...Vienna is reeling from the effects of overcrowding. Trails of beer and soft-drink cans festoon the mountainsides. Slashes that are cut into the forest to meet the demand for ski slopes create avalanches in the winter and mud slides in the summer. Salt scattered over ski runs to harden the snow now fouls water supplies, as do the tons of detergents from hotels and condominiums. Animals that need space, such as eagles, lynxes and hares, are disappearing. The contamination of mountain streams has put 70% of lower Bavaria's fish on the endangered list. And perhaps gravest...