Word: stepped
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Carter ended the summit with an open invitation to Begin to "call any time, any day." The next step in getting the parties to Geneva is up to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. He will start a ten-day trip to the Middle East on Aug. 1, stopping in five Arab states before visiting Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan in Jerusalem. Vance's aides are worried about what kind of reception he will get in the Arab world. Said one U.S. official: "The problem with all this is how the Arabs will feel about it. Frankly, I think...
...next step in the Prime Minister's grand plan-and the platform on which he will fight the election campaign-will be to get what he calls an internal settlement." This means forging a multiracial government that would, he hopes, include at least one relatively moderate black nationalist leader, like Bishop Abel Muzorewa or the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, both of whom are currently inside Rhodesia. By so doing, Smith reasons, he would be conforming to international insistence that his white minority government give way to black majority rule. Smith's goal clearly, is to prevent the "external" Patriotic...
...Anglo-American initiative broke down over the question of who should hold power during the crucial transition period. The blacks insisted that Smith should step down and relinquish all control over the security forces; Smith will not do that unless law-and-order is guaranteed, and understandably enough, he will not allow the guerrilla forces to take over that function. One possible solution: an international peace-keeping force for the transition period-but the U.S., Britain and several other nations have indicated that they want no part...
...Step-Out Wells. Though new fields are being developed in the Rockies, Wyoming and Montana, the most activity right now is in such heavily drilled-over states as Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas. Operators are squeezing more oil out of those areas through "step-out" drilling-boring wells just beyond old ones or sinking them deeper In central Oklahoma's heavily drilled East Guthrie field, eleven new step-out wells now produce more than...
Once this stage was reached, the fourth step came quickly. Realizing that impressing their shapes on the bullae made enclosing the tokens unnecessary, people abandoned the counters and began keeping their records directly on clay tablets. The efficiency of that technique was immediately obvious, says Schmandt-Besserat, and could explain not only how written record keeping evolved but also why writing spread so rapidly along the trade routes and quickly took hold throughout the civilized world of that day. But even the development of writing did not lead to the disappearance of the tokens. The written word, after all, helps...