Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasser finally decided to step in personally, last week swallowed his pride and journeyed to Jedda for face-to-face talks with Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Feisal has been backing the royalists with money and munitions, just as Nasser has been backing the republicans, so if a swift solution is possible they should be the men to find it. In Cairo, where Egyptians are weary of a distant war that costs $1,000,000 a day in addition to thousands of casualties, there was a gush of exultation. The daily Al Akhbar printed a cartoon showing Nasser riding...
...Communist bands that President Fernando Belaunde Terry once dismissed as a "mere fiction" still operate. They are now a recognized fact of life. The constitutional guarantees suspended two months ago, putting the country under a form of martial law, are still suspended. Last week the Peruvian Congress went a step farther by authorizing military courts to impose the death penalty on captured guerrillas, and voted $7,400,000 to step up an already major operation against what the lawmakers called "imperialistic Communist aggression...
...Step in the Drive. The law was proposed in various forms by both Republicans and Democrats, but it was opposed most vociferously by a Democratic bloc of legislators from Boston, the city at which it is mainly aimed. "This bill," cried Boston Democratic Representative Paul Murphy, "is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation ever considered by this House...
...other hand, the state's Republican Attorney General Edward Brooke, a Negro, called the legislation a "dramatic and heartening" step in the drive to "ensure equality in education." Still, the law may have to be harshly applied in Boston, where more than 50% of the enrollment in 45 schools is nonwhite. The city's governing public school committee has refused to admit that segregation exists in its schools. Its chairman, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, declared last week that "racial imbalance in itself is not educationally harmful." Rather than bus kids, Mrs. Hicks would prefer to get along without...
...Reformation. The World Council's dialogue with Rome is a surrender of Christian allegiance to the truth; its dialogue with Jewish leaders follows the same syncretistic trends. Those liberals are going ahead without taking account of the people in the pew. That's where we step in. We talk to the people...