Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporting his belief that Nixon was part of the cover-up "from day one"-even though no one in the-White House viewed it as a crime at first. The cover-up was not a "conspiracy" in the legal sense, Haldeman contends: It was "organic," growing "one step at a time" to limit political damage to the President...
...proposed settlement does not include representatives of the Patriotic Front, which has some 17,000 guerrillas in neighboring Mozambique and Zambia engaged in a war of attrition with the Smith government. As expected, Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe castigated the internal settlement plan and vowed to step up the fighting. "We are going to hit each other hard," Nkomo said ominously after the announcement last week. "We intend to finish [Smith...
...include Nkomo and Mugabe. British Foreign Secretary David Owen, for example, has been sharply critical of the talks between Salisbury and the moderate black nationalists. But last week he responded to a barrage of Tory questions in the House of Commons by conceding that the agreement is "a significant step toward majority rule...
...cocktail party, an Ethiopian official smilingly told the reporters that "we may be forced to take a revolutionary step against those deviating from the program." Since "revolutionary step" is the government euphemism for an execution, the bad joke drew some ragged laughter-but not from those who had heard the staccato of automatic-rifle fire near the hotel before the party began...
...ACSR is working, under an unofficial mid-March deadline, to come up with an overall policy on University investments in firms operating in South Africa; the SASC will probably step up its activities as the time for decision-making winds down...