Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week a resolution was introduced in the House, aimed at Flood, requiring committee chairmen to step aside if they are indicted for an offense punishable by more than two years in prison. Meanwhile, Flood continues his campaign for re-election back home where his popularity does not seem to ebb. After the indictments were announced, the Congressman-a former Shakespearean actor -seemed uncharacteristically subdued when he stepped outside his modest house to make a statement. Claimed Flood: "These are charges made by desperate men under pressure...
Washington does not believe last week's violent eruptions mean that the Shah is likely to step aside - or be ousted. "It could get nasty or it could settle down," says a U.S. intelligence official. "But we don't feel that he is threatened or has lost control." Still, the U.S. is concerned over the recent events and the dangers they pose for the West. The Administration has been careful not to upset what one State Department official calls "our most complex relationship." The reason is simple enough: few countries in the world are as important to the U.S. strategically...
Three of the most wanted suspects-Willy Peter Stoll, 28, Adelheid Schulz, 23, and Christian Klar, 26-had eluded the most intensive man hunt in West German history. They stayed just a tantalizing step ahead of the law, thanks largely to some of the worst police work the world has witnessed since the Keystone Kops...
Somoza's refusal to step down presents a dilemma for American policymakers. The U.S. has long supported the dynasty as a stronghold of antiCommunism; Somoza often paraded around Central America as if he were a U.S. proconsul. Washington is anxious to change that image, but it does not want to see a power vacuum that could be filled by a pro-Castro regime. The U.S. has, however, taken soundings of Nicaragua's neighbors. Said an Administration official: "The consensus is that the sooner Somoza gets out, the better...
...positive start shows in Mehta's first rehearsals. He radiates pent-up emotion that electrifies the orchestra. In certain lyrical passages, as in Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juliet, " he almost stops conducting, falling into a dreamy, swimming motion. At more dramatic moments, however, he will step smartly forward, as if charging directly into the music. Startled, the players give him the taut line that he wants...