Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booby traps and land mines, and the casualties are growing. In the U.S. Marine sectors alone, booby-trap incidents have increased from an average of three a day in January to nearly eight a day last month. Wherever he goes, every foot soldier on every patrol knows his next step may be his last...
...last week took a personal step toward correcting canonical injustice as he sees it by announcing the opening of a national office in Santa Monica of a proposed union of U.S. Catholic priests. Dues: $25 a year...
...During periods of intense solar activity, say modern astronomers, high-energy protons expelled from the sun strike luminescent meteorite material on the lunar surface, and the collisions cause some areas of the moon to glow. Now a Chinese-born, Westinghouse Electric Corp. scientist has gone a step further. An ever-shifting, narrow strip of the moon, he believes, constantly emits a glow...
...policy, then, must not be conceived as one sweeping change, but a series of consistent steps designed to persuade both the American people and the North Vietnamese of a fundamental shift in emphasis. The first step is to put new men, whose fundamental aim is achieving a negotiated settlement, into important positions. Part of America's current ambivalence can be traced to the ambivalence of the men in policy-making posts; naturally, their pledges for peace are unconvincing. The President, having missed a number of recent opportunities to make constructive changes, must now use the path of White House appointments...
...United States must also give some indication that, if it ever does get to the negotiations table, it will be a sincere bargainer. And the first step here is to make it clear that the National Liberation Front would be accepted as a major bargaining agent. The constant refusal to do so seems based only on the rhetoric of our own inflexible position -- the rhetoric that insists that this is simply and purely an "aggressive" war from the North...