Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "owe a debt of thanks to the members of the U.S. Senate for their courageous action today in voting for the Panama Canal neutrality treaty. I am confident that the Senate will show the same courage and foresight when it considers the second treaty. This is a promising step toward a new era in our relationships with Panama and with all of Latin America." He singled out Byrd, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, Gerald Ford and John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations...
...anything they want." But the owners are divided over the proposed contract's requirement that miners pay up to $200 in deductibles for medical care. Said a small Pennsylvania operator: "The deductibles are tiny, but the miners have had free health care for years, and this is a step back to them, no matter how small...
...P.L.O. official in Beirut suggests sardonically that the next step will be Israeli settlements in south Lebanon. "Or it may be an archaeological dig," he adds slyly, referring to the illegal Jewish settlement at Shiloh in the West Bank that the Begin government persists in pretending is there for archaeological pursuits...
...woman, who watched the kidnaping from a window, told police that she saw one of the terrorists step...
...subcommittee recommendations, which are self-consciously moderate and "pragmatic," seem too willing to give the South African minority government another chance to make good, considering its past record. While the Senate may be content to wait to observe the effects of this half-way measure before taking another insufficient step, South African non-whites continue to live each day under the most systematically repressive and racist government on earth...