Word: ironclad
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Daunting obstacles remain before the Cubans go home. Pretoria is sure to demand ironclad guarantees of a Cuban withdrawal before its own troops leave Namibia. Still, the cease-fire between South Africa and Angola has held, and even South African officials have been impressed by the Angolan determination to end the border war. In recent weeks, troops from both countries have combined forces in a Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), which has been forced to engage disruptive SWAPO forces on three separate occasions. The JMC toll: two killed and eight wounded, all Angolan. The fact that the Dos Santos government...
Being critical of America's policy and its Government has nothing to do with being anti-American. There are no ironclad rules saying our German policy must be the same as your own. Do you really prefer blatant toadying to honest criticism? And do you still believe that what is good for America must also be good for the world at large...
Those, indeed, are legitimate complaints. But focusing on this criticism clouds over a more serious problem raised by the weekend festivities--that the "bosses" continue to latch onto their ironclad control of the party, and are willing to pull almost anything to maintain...
...most of his previous works, Neil Simon has parried the perils of heart-to-heart emotional commitment with a disarming quip. A loose upper lip has been his tactic for keeping pain in quarantine. With an ironclad consistency, he has been the Man in the Comic Mask...
...from long-term aids like better teacher training. An ever present temptation is to get rid of the problem on the surface by "holding back" students till they have attained competency for the grade level. New York City ran into just this problem in 1980 when it created an ironclad regulation for the city's overcrowded, almost completely ineffectual seventh grades: Students could not go on to eighth until they had achieved certain flat scores on the city "idiot tests...