Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three conditions are necessary for a unilateral withdrawal: progress in Paris, a reduced level of fighting, and an improvement in the defensive capabilities of the South Vietnamese. In truth, any one, or even the appearance of any one of these conditions might induce Nixon to take a welcome unilateral step...
...Ground. Though not enumerated in the speech, the proposals divided neatly into eight steps, and White House advisers immediately began billing them as an eight-point plan, thus entering Nixon in the Great Peace-Point Derby.-In the heart of his speech, the President used almost contractual prose that Lawyer Nixon knows well. As a first step, he proposed agreement on mutual U.S., allied and North Vietnamese troop withdrawals. This would be followed, gradually and each time under new agreement, by creation of an "international supervisory body" that would verify troop pullbacks, arrange a final cease-fire and oversee national...
...original with the Nixon Administration. Lyndon Johnson put forward a similar plan, and several bills in Congress have the same general goals. The obstacle has been the House Armed Services Committee and its chairman, Mendel Rivers of South Carolina. Rivers fears that most draft-reform plans are the first step toward centralizing Selective Service and reducing the autonomy of the nation's 4,000 local draft boards. However, he now professes to have an open mind, and his conversion could be crucial. The reforms have a good chance of making it through the Senate...
...Each step Poher took appeared to have been carefully measured and exhibited a subtle timing that Frenchmen appreciated. As the leader of the Senate, Poher automatically became the interim President of France. Last week he promised to separate as much as possible the Acting President from the candidate. He swore to take part in no meetings and to accept no more official invitations that might give him an advantage over the other candidates-with the single exception of appearing at the Cup of France soccer final, thus reviving a presidential tradition that De Gaulle had neglected in recent years...
...come and negotiate with us for secure and agreed borders. Now, I say 'secure' because we have lived with those borders for 20 years. Anybody that tells us that we should step down so that the Syrians again can put their guns in position and to say to our people down below, don't budge, stay there -I want to see that hero. It is not moral. It is not decent...