Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full-dress debate on the arms race, nuclear and otherwise. You are certainly aware that an end to nuclear tests is part of the official U.S. disarmament package. This committee has publicly endorsed the President's recent proposals to Khrushchev. We differ from Administration policy on what step should be taken first: we advocate separation of the nuclear test ban from the total package...
...center of the diplomatic stage at the United Nations, under the glaring floodlights of world interest and hope, the U.S. sought agreement last week on a practical first step toward easing the strains of cold war: it proposed an international inspection system in the Arctic to provide protection against surprise attack. But in the center of that same stage, under the same glare of floodlights, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics said nyet (see FOREIGN NEWS)-and proved beyond any last lingering doubt that it is more interested in the propaganda of peace than in the reality...
...parts of the "high seas" as well as those that lead from the high seas into "territorial waters of a foreign state." The Arabs, insisting they are technically at war with Israel and therefore innocent passage does not apply, abstained. The practical situation was not altered, but a step had been taken in the codification of international law that gave Israel's rights the backing of world legal opinion...
Although the number of undergraduate cars ticketed in the current overnight parking campaign declined recently, Leighton felt that further action is still necessary. He refused to comment on exactly what the next step would be. "All types of proposals are being suggested," he stated...
...revamped unemployment compensation bill passed last week by the House, while inadequate, is still a step forward. Senate Democrats fortunately plan to broaden the House measure, increasing the level of payments and extending compensation periods...