Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet with Ford the next morning, without explaining why. He also left a similar message for Colby. Nov. 2. As Colby sat down with Ford promptly at 8 a.m., the President tried to be friendly. He conceded that he was moving abruptly in asking Colby to step down so quickly and implied that he realized this was going back on his earlier promise to let Colby retire with dignity and honor after the inquisitorial ordeal of investigations was over. He wanted to act now, Ford explained, as part of a reorganization of his entire national security team. Colby was offered...
Facing a life term in prison if convicted of the attempted assassination of President Ford in September, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, 27, took one step deeper into trouble last week. As U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes began his opening statement to the jury of six men and six women in Sacramento, Fromme, who had decided to act as her own counsel, suddenly stood up and demanded the right to bring her mentor, convicted Murderer Charles Manson, into court as a witness. "Manson and our family are my own heartbeat," said she. "I can't go to trial unless they are allowed...
Changing the arrest policy so substantively is actually a major step toward changing the nature of the Harvard police force, as Gorski recognizes. To make the transition easier, the new police chief is planning a training period during which cops will be schooled in criminal law, in "stop and frisk" procedures, and in arrest tactics...
Sadat's press campaign had been carefully choreographed by Tahsin Bashir, 50, a moonfaced, cigar-smoking intellectual who had served as Egypt's spokesman at the United Nations and as Arab League information officer before Sadat last year named him presidential press adviser. Bashir's first step was to abandon the censorship and tone down the anti-Zionist rhetoric that used to dominate Egyptian press policy. "If anybody photographed a camel in our streets," he says of the xenophobic old days, "it was considered treason...
Perhaps inspired by the practicing Harvard band's rendition of the William Tell overture, Radcliffe briefly turned the tide midway through the half. Senior Maude Wood's shot on the door-step was kicked out by goalie Harnish, but the rebound was fanned on by the Crimson, and eventually cleared by the Princeton defense...