Word: proviso
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cheney's support for armed intervention was unqualified, though he pointed out to Bush that the U.S. presence in the region at the outset was weak -- only a handful of ships in the gulf. Powell backed Cheney with the proviso that an insertion of American forces should be massive and swift, not gradual...
...Russian Republic, led by Yeltsin, where deputies approved the basic outlines of the Shatalin package by a lopsided count of 213 to 2. They also issued an appeal to other parliaments across the nation to follow their lead in approving the plan as quickly as possible. Yeltsin added a proviso: "The adoption of the program should go together with the resignation of the Ryzhkov government...
...Klerk first announced that Mandela would be released "without delay" on Feb. 2. Then came a nerve-racking interval, recalling the years of slice-at-a- time tactics the government has used to neutralize black reaction. Mandela was kept waiting while the government whittled away at its proviso that he must renounce violence. Last Saturday De Klerk simply declared, "I came to the conclusion that he is committed to a peaceful solution and a peaceful process." Pretoria had long worried that when Mandela appeared on the streets of Soweto once again, black townships all over the country would explode into...