Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Washington is opposed to economic sanctions-a far more drastic step that it believes would be counterproductive. The Administration's goal is an arms embargo subject to renewal by the Security Council every six months. The hope is that such a resolution would persuade Pretoria to ease the strictures of apartheid and repression. Young gained the support of the other Western members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Canada and West Germany) for a carefully worded resolution that would impose the arms sanctions and also brand South Africa "a threat to international peace and security." With the help...
...London, retired Field Marshal Sir Richard Michael Power Carver, Britain's newly appointed proconsul for Rhodesia, prepared to fly to Salisbury this week. His mission: to secure, if possible, an actual cease-fire agreement, which is the first step in a British-American peace plan that calls for new elections and transition to rule by the country's black majority...
...Utah, and a House subcommittee has approved repeal of a grandfather clause, which could also cost Ritter his power to assign cases. (Congress exempted 32 sitting chiefs of two-judge districts when it mandated an age 70 retirement policy in 1958; now Ritter is the sole survivor.) Either step would please Utah Senator Jake Garn, who brands Ritter "a disgrace to the federal judiciary...
...however, minutes and reports of one group, the visiting committee to the Graduate School of Design (GSD), were released without authorization. Last year, the Overseers took the unprecedented step of canceling the annual meeting of the GSD committee. The Overseers cited a "breach of confidentiality" that undermined "the mutual confidence and trust that must run between the School and the Visiting Committee...
Unfortunately, most of the other actors in the Leverett production never step outside the molds created for them by class. Anita Gilman, who plays Higgins's mother with a good deal of self-parody, is a notable exception to this rule. And as Freddy, who uncomfortabls senses the absurdity of his own pretensions, so is David Brown. But because the other actors do not have a clear sense of their characters, the interactions, already hard in so didactic a play, seem forced. Sociologically, this lack of established connection lessens the possibility of social change; dramatically, these less accomplished performances slow...