Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catherine Mullally Seattle I just returned from a kibbutz near Israel's border with Lebanon. During my stay we received a gift from the P.L.O. - a bomb. Fortunately no one was hurt, but that was not their intent. To grant the P.L.O. self-determination is a step toward the elimination of Israel...
...deft political dance that has confused and enraged his enemies and charmed and encouraged his friends. Brown now plans to announce for the presidency in late September or early October. But during a summer of discontent, of battles fought and lost, he may have miscalculated and taken one step too far to the left. The man who has stressed cutting spending and balancing the budget has wound up on many issues in the same camp with those left-wing luminaries, Jane Fonda and her husband Tom Hayden...
...laws. Without a Parliament, it cannot initiate policy. Yet India is in desperate need of firm government to tackle urgent economic problems, including inflation currently running at 15%. To add to India's troubles, Pakistan has not abandoned its efforts to acquire an enriched-uranium plant, a crucial step in developing the so-called Islamic Abomb...
...reaching revolutionary ideas, and some even pursue the decadent way of life of the bourgeoisie." Shu Xun, an English teacher at the Xiang Ming Middle School, worries about the materialism of many students, whose main concern is "getting an automobile or a color TV." Others have taken a revolutionary step further and even dared criticize the regime itself. "I think conditions must be far better in the Soviet Union than they are here," said one bespectacled student on Huai Hua Street. "Alexander Ginzburg and Anatoli Shcharansky can express their opinions to journalists. Who knows who the dissidents are here...
...Aboard Salyut, they performed such experiments as growing crystals in zero g, jettisoned the tangled antenna of the first radio telescope in orbit during an 83-min. space walk, and docked three times with unmanned Progress spacecraft bringing mail and supplies. For the Soviets, it all meant a major step toward a long-held dream: establishment of permanent manned spacelabs...