Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crossing the "Fire Break." The Administration's fear of firing any sort of nuclear weapon is based largely on the so-called "fire break" theory. That theory holds that the single step from use of the largest gunpowder weapon to use of the smallest tactical nuclear weapon would mean crossing the "fire break" area between limited war and all-out, intercontinental, thermonuclear disaster. Says Vance: "Once you use any nuclear device, no matter how small, you move completely into another world...
Though there was no mention of removal of Egyptian troops from Yemen, the communiqué was widely hailed in the Arab world, and Washington called it a "statesmanlike action" and a "major step toward eventual peaceful settlement of the long civil war." To show the world their new fraternal affection, Nasser and Feisal warmly embraced at Alexandria's airport and called each other "brother." Feisal, who once muttered curses at Cairo's boss, said he was leaving Egypt "with my heart brimming with love for President Nasser...
...taught that bearing children is not necessarily painful, that pain comes only because of fear, which may interfere with contractions of uterine muscles that open the womb and push the child out through the birth canal. Pavlovian psychologists in Soviet Russia took Dick Read's idea one step farther. Both fear and pain, they reasoned, could be overcome by conditioning. During the 1940s, Soviet doctors began educating mothers to be unafraid of childbirth, and by 1951 hospitals in Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad all used the natural-childbirth method...
Moses, a man of uncompromising morality, imposed his own standards on the delegation during the convention. But Moses, a humble and selfless man, stepped into the leadership role because the Party was floundering. He may step out as the Party gains strength...
...first step at Tokyo, France's aristocratic, intellectual Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing plumped for a basic change in the system of monetary reserves that helps to bankroll world trade. He proposed that the leading industrial countries create a vague new international currency, based on gold, that would gradually replace the current reserve mix of dollars, sterling and gold. The hooker in this return to a universal gold standard is that it would greatly enhance the power of France, which has plenty of gold reserves, but weaken the U.S. and Britain, which are currently embarrassed...