Word: softener
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Harvard has lured a prominent music historian from a German conservatory in a move professors predicted would soften an internal rift between composers and musicologists in the Music Department...
...Letting Syria gobble up Lebanon now may only be guaranteeing that in the near-term future an even greater crisis will occur, forcing Israel, and perhaps also the United States, to react in even more dangerous circumstances." Eagleburger's plea helped persuade the resolution's sponsors to soften the language. Criticism of the Administration's policies will probably be modified or dropped altogether, while a passage acknowledging the value of keeping the U.S. Sixth Fleet off the Lebanese coast will be added. But a Marine withdrawal will still be demanded, as will the written report. The resolution...
...first real scuffle came in 1974, when UNESCO voted to exclude Israel from a regional working group because it allegedly altered "the historical features of Jerusalem" during archaeological excavations and "brainwashed" Arabs in the occupied territories. Congress promptly suspended UNESCO's appropriations, which forced the agency to soften its sanctions. In 1976 Israel was readmitted; in 1977 U.S. funding resumed...
Havana in addition is preparing Cuban and world opinion for the possibility that some Cuban prisoners in Grenada might defect to the U.S. That has not happened yet, but Castro evidently fears it will and is seeking to soften the blow by dismissing any defections in advance as the result of U.S. psychological coercion. A government communique charges that American interrogators are "using every possible means to undermine the morale" of the prisoners, telling them that Cuba does not want them back and offering them political asylum...
...once he was not merely wishing aloud. By a two-to-one majority, some 2.1 million voters - a fraction of the white-dominated country's 30 million inhabitants - had endorsed a proposal sponsored by Botha's ruling National Party to rewrite the South African constitution and soften its policy of whites-only rule. Botha also hailed the outcome of the referendum as "overwhelming." There Prime Minister was stretching matters a bit. Nonetheless, a milestone of sorts had been achieved in South Africa's long and sordid history of apartheid. As a result of the "yes" vote...