Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cyrus Vance met Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York City and delivered what was said to be his toughest private lecture to date on the Soviet role in Africa. During his three-day visit to Peking, Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, urged the Chinese to step up their economic assistance to Africa to provide a counterweight to that of the Russians. Vice President Walter Mondale sharply criticized the Soviet Union in a U.N. speech for its obdurate stand on disarmament. In the meantime, the President ordered the preparation of a Presidential Review Memorandum (or PRM, pronounced...
...Administration official is convinced that the Clark amendment, which prohibited the Ford Administration from aiding antigovernment forces in Angola, was a factor in emboldening the Soviets to step up their activity in Africa. Another, this official believes, was the U.S.Soviet joint statement on the Middle East last October, which was followed shortly by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem. After heated objections from Israel, the Administration backed away from the joint statement. The Soviets felt betrayed and outflanked by the U.S. in the Middle East, according to this view, and turned their attentions toward black Africa...
...Poland, university students anguished over the fact that their final exams fall exactly in the weeks of the Cup series. State-run retail enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...Americans now acknowledge, not without reservations, the right of women to end unwanted pregnancies legally and safely. Yet even advocates of abortion are concerned about the rights of those fetuses that somehow survive lateterm abortions and emerge unwanted but alive. It is Nolen's view that "the step from liberal abortion to euthanasia is a perfectly logical one." That, he argues, is a step no society can take without risking its own survival...
...rooms seem to range from fairly clean to completely nauseating. Some of them are one step behind the Board of Health." Dierdre Donahue '80, a dorm crew worker in Winthrop House, said yesterday...