Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kiesinger believes that reunification will come about only after a European detente and not as a first step toward such a detente, as Adenauer and Erhard had maintained. Nor is the government totally opposed to the idea of recognizing the East German regime. Herbert Wether, one of the top leaders of the SPD and Kiesinger's Minister for All German Affairs, has already gone on record as favoring recognition, if such a step could bring about an easing of present restrictions. There is a totally new spirit in Bonn today which Mr. Rosberg has failed to depict. Gebhard Schweigler...
...must compete with the rumble of armored convoys on the road outside. Communist slogans, painted on the classroom walls by Viet Cong by night and whitewashed away by day, are faintly visible. Bullet holes stand out more starkly. On their way to school along a pot-holed road, children step carefully, watch for Viet Cong mines. One enemy mine recently killed two South Vietnamese soldiers near the school, and both sides ambush each other along the trails in the area. Sometimes the Viet Cong block the road-and that day school starts late...
...plot meanders down the familiar path to self-discovery that earlier pilgrims-Aldous Huxley, Maugham himself-have trod before. The hero is Oliver, who, like Isherwood, has become fascinated by Oriental mysticism. He decides to become a monk-a step that Isherwood considered but never took-and goes to India to become a swami. On the eve of the final vow-taking, his elder brother Patrick, a London publisher and one of the most cheerfully decadent characters in recent fiction, appears at Oliver's monastery by the Ganges. Unable to leave so much integrity untouched, Patrick tempts Oliver with...
What do we fear with reason, or desire? Is a step made without regret? The gods...
Organizationally: The program should be staged over time. Our first step should be to prepare to use the Spring Mobilization as a recruiting ground. Ideally, the need and the plan for civil disobedience should be made from the podium with a period of time during the rally devoted to actually committing people to civil disobedience, according to the plan above, so that by the end of the day it could be announced that a thousand people were committed to go to jail if our demands are not satisfied. People would also be committed back to their communities to organize others...