Word: step-by-step
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...right want to provoke the military into a coup d'etat in order to save Spain from the 20th century." There was no indication that any such extreme solution was at hand. But the outburst of violence posed the most serious sabotage threat yet to Spain's step-by-step transition under King Juan Carlos from dictatorship to representative democracy...
...EXHIBITION of etchings and lithographs by Dine, currently at M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery, displays works from the 1970s, after Dine had left New York to teach at Oberlin and then lived in Europe for several years. Without trying to analyze step-by-step developments in Dine's graphic art during the past six years, the exhibition does a good job of showing major themes and trends...
...volatile Middle East, Ford has authorized massive support for Israel ($4.3 billion in aid in the past two years), along with measures designed to gain the trust of the Arab states, such as economic aid and arms sales. Acknowledging that Kissinger's tactic of step-by-step diplomacy may have achieved all it can, Ford suggests that the next move toward a Middle East peace probably should be a general conference...
Both candidates favor using U.S. pressure on Rhodesia to move toward "majority" (black) rule and on South Africa to abandon apartheid. Both want the U.S. to work with all parties toward an overall settlement in the Middle East?even Kissinger agrees that his old step-by-step technique is outdated?and both risk offending some Jewish voters by accepting the view that Israel should give up substantial territory that it seized from the Arabs during the 1967 war in return for some kind of international guarantee of its safety...
...over Lebanon. Before the civil war, there seemed a chance, however slight, that Henry Kissinger could follow up last September's successful Sinai interim agreement between Israel and Egypt with a peace-seeking shuttle between Israel and Syria. But when Lebanon blew up, so did opportunities for further step-by-step diplomacy...