Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nations in Southeast Asia appeared more worried over the next step than the last. In occupying Cambodia and installing a friendly puppet government, the Vietnamese Communists had taken yet another stride toward control of the Indochinese peninsula. Having conquered South Viet Nam in a long and bloody war, Hanoi had gone on to rule a puppet regime in Laos with the aid of 30,000 Vietnamese soldiers. Cambodia was the obvious third target...
...local folklore has it that Baluchistan's towering hills are carpets covering vast troves of mineral wealth. "We have a saying here," beams one local leader, the portly Khan of Kalat, "that a Baluch child may be born without socks on his feet, but when he grows every step he takes is on gold." The fact is that Baluchistan has a bit of oil, coal and natural gas, but not much else...
...part of their modernization program, China's leaders are discussing plans with U.S. Steel and a Japanese firm to build a $1 billion iron ore processing complex in the north. Still, the Chinese were taking another step that seemed to weigh against modernization, the showing in several Peking movie houses of Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin's 1936 mournful satire on the brutalizing aspects of overmechanization. The sight of Chaplin trapped on the assembly line could set Chinese citizens pondering the evils, as well as the blessings, of modernization...
...quickly fishing Hammond's notes out of the fire and alerting the staff to a danger in the household. Such things run in Lady Marjorie's family, she sniffs; it was not for nothing that her aunt was known as "the Bolter." Before the servants can step in, Richard finds out and gently reminds his wife that their marriage is built upon loyalty. In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906. "I have loved you as I never have a man and never will again," she says...
...United States since World War II--the establishment of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. The recognition of the most populous country in the world is none too soon in coming. Carter's decision, bringing seven years of negotiations to fruition, is a much-needed step to resolve the confusion and haphazardness that has characterized America's China policy for the last 30 years...