Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initialed in Moscow as "a shaft of light" in the midst of the discord and disillusion of the postwar years. Measured against the broad range of issues that divide East and West, the treaty is a limited achievement, but the President pointed out that it is "an important first step-a step toward peace-a step toward reason-a step away from war." With what was, in the light of the cleavage within the Communist bloc, a nice touch of irony, he quoted an ancient Chinese proverb: "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step...
...Further Steps. The atmosphere was jovial. "Let us pretend we are discussing something," said AF for the benefit of photographers. Volunteered H: "I'll make my famous speech in Russian." He grinned but said nothing, since he speaks no Russian. Suddenly finding a microphone in front of his face, WAH declared: "The treaty is a very important step forward in many respects. It provides the possibility of further steps." Everyone seemed to be talking about steps. In his report to the people, President Kennedy used the same image (see THE NATION). The big, unanswered and for the present unanswerable...
...armistice, and the only place where the two sides formally come together-hostility is barely controlled. Red guards and U.S. military policemen shove and elbow each other for the right of way on sidewalks. Communists growl, "Kae seki [son of a bitch]" as they pass, spit at them or step on their toes. Reacting to such petty provocations, one 6-ft., 200-lb. U.S. Navy yeoman strolled up to a North Korean guardhouse and casually leaned against the door while the angry Communist soldiers inside tried in vain...
Penalty for Aid. Bankers certainly do not mind higher interest rates, but the financial world is concerned about the second Kennedy step: the new tax on U.S. purchases of foreign securities. As financiers see it, the tax may weaken the nation's position as banker to the world, and may be just a precursor of more controls. The Administration's third step-an arrangement to borrow up to $500 million from the International Monetary Fund-brought home more eloquently than ever before the gravity of the U.S. payments squeeze. All this concern about money has hardly helped...
...because it deals with a threat to individuals rather than masses of peoples. The President was powerfully persuasive in noting that while the statistical effects of testing are negligible, lukemia or genetic mutation cannot fail to be significant to the victim. Further, the treaty has importance as a first step towards permanently limiting the nuclear club Wide dispersion of nuclear weapons could quickly lead to a world disaster of inconceivable horror; only a growing system of control agreements among the current nuclear powers can prevent such a catastrophe...