Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of such intransigence, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization's Council of Ministers ended a three-day meeting in Washington last week with a demand for "reciprocity" from the North in exchange for any Allied reduction in the fighting. But the prospects that Hanoi will accept a mutual step-down are as remote as ever. "We can't get the other side even to whisper to us behind the hand," complained Rusk...
...Nava defeats Smoot in the May 31 runoff, he will become the first Mexican-American ever to sit on the city school board. That, for the pocho, would be a major step from self-pity toward self-representation...
...first major step to bind Germany to France and Europe was the 1952 merger of the coal and steel resources of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. The six went on to form the Common Market in 1958 and became Europe's best hope of unity. In 1955, he won for Germany a place in NATO and thus further links to the Western community of nations. Like John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State at the time, der Alte saw Communism as an implacable threat to his Christian conception of Western civilization. Dulles and Adenauer became fast friends...
...first major step toward building a common market for Latin America will come in midsummer, when officials of the two existing markets-the eleven-nation Latin American Free Trade Association and the five-nation Central American Common Market- will meet to discuss plans for merging the two zones into one economic com munity. Meanwhile, the Latins will talk among themselves about multilateral plans for better education, health and communications. By autumn, the first details of Latin America's new direction should begin to take shape...
...group seeks an unconditional halt in the bombing as the first step to bring Hanoi to negotiations. It plans a national signature campaign and hopes to have a million names backing the demand by early summer...