Word: lifted
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...unlikely event of a hostile Soviet move. "We need at least another year to determine whether the Soviet conventional restructuring is irreversible," argues James Blackwell, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. This can be accomplished by having the Navy buy fast sea-lift ships that could transport U.S.-based soldiers to Europe in a crisis. The Air Force, similarly, should keep a powerful force of attack aircraft that could leap overseas on short notice. In addition, the military should maintain supply depots in Europe . stocked with tanks, artillery and ammunition...
...black opposition groups as conditions for the start of talks on a new constitution. Most important, he promised to release the world's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, now in his 28th year of imprisonment, though he did not say when. De Klerk legalized more than 60 banned organizations, lifted emergency restrictions on the press and on 374 political activists, suspended executions and put a six-month limit on detentions without trial. He also promised to lift the remaining elements of the state of emergency imposed in 1986 "as soon as circumstances justify it." Said De Klerk: "The season...
Should American companies lift sanctions if those conditions...
...spoke with Mr. De Klerk...We said to him at that time that if he met the conditions we had put down, we would come out of the meeting with him...and say to the press, 'we are going to say to our friends immediately implement this, lift sanctions...
Alex: I'm sorry. That's incorrect. You, of course, were thinking of the 1989 NCAA champiionship, when Rumeal Robinson nailed both free throws with seconds left on the clock to lift Michigan over Seton Hall. But it was Dartmouth's James Blackwell who nailed both ends of a one-and-one with 34 seconds left in Saturday's game...