Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance the last debate looked like a marginal victory for Carter, at best. The University of Chicago's Norman Nie found both men "extremely careful not to step on a single toe and not to make a single error, and I don't think people are particularly attracted to that." Marquette University's Wayne Youngquist lamented that neither came out with anything new, making it "even harder for voters to make up their minds." But Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset thought the debate ''will serve to confirm people in their choices. If they haven...
...Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a recent interview Brown called Israel "a burden" to the U.S., and Great Britain "a pathetic thing"; in 1974 he had charged that Jews unduly influenced Congress, banks and newspapers. Ford claimed, erroneously, that Brown had been "reprimanded"-a severe step in dealing with high military officers. The general was not even given a personal presidential scolding. much less a formal reprimand. Carter said merely that Ford should have issued a quicker clarification that Brown's statements did not reflect U.S. policy...
...volatile Middle East, Ford has authorized massive support for Israel ($4.3 billion in aid in the past two years), along with measures designed to gain the trust of the Arab states, such as economic aid and arms sales. Acknowledging that Kissinger's tactic of step-by-step diplomacy may have achieved all it can, Ford suggests that the next move toward a Middle East peace probably should be a general conference...
...historic founding of America 200 years ago was, to use a recent but nevertheless famous American phrase, a giant step for mankind. As this great American nation, whose friendship we truly value, now enters its third century, I give it my good wishes...
...Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the man once slated to succeed the late Chou En-lai as Premier, and thousands of other victims of their own ideological campaigns. Some China watchers speculated that the charges against Chiang Ch'ing and her clique could be a first step toward rehabilitating Teng...