Word: steps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt on the bombing of the factory. Finally, the military command announced that there had been inaccurate bombing because of a "technical error"-but it offered no further explanation. As if to underscore that the raid really was an accident, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan took the unprecedented step of notifying Egypt through the International Red Cross and U.N. cease-fire observers that an 880-lb. delayed-action bomb had been dropped at Abu Zabal and was set to detonate in 24 hours...
...that is changing. Pope Paul has made it much easier for dissatisfied priests to gain dispensations from their vows; counseling services like Bearings, Washington's Career Programming Institute, and San Francisco's Next Step provide advice about jobs, psychological help (if needed) and often sedately swinging parties for ex-priests to meet other men and women who have jumped over the wall. Career Programming has placed former clerics in jobs paying as much as $35,000 a year. Even though some priests may have mainly theological backgrounds, explains a Bearings counselor, businesses are increasingly interested in them because liberal-arts...
...Sister Anita, as for her nuns, Rome's uncompromising order amounted to giving up a new mode of Christian service that they believed in deeply; collectively, they decided that they could not step back into the past. "If you bought the whole package of self-determination," Sister Anita says, "and you were being stopped every little while, then it seemed logical to break away. While I saw the break as inevitable, I didn't really want it. But I wondered how much energy you could spend fighting authority when you could spend that same energy doing what...
...Anita "wanted to be a teacher, a writer perhaps, with a little play-acting thrown in," but she had always considered the possibility of becoming a nun. As a student at Immaculate Heart College, she was impressed by the sisters ("Even then they weren't all in lock step"). After graduating, she entered the convent and began teaching English in its high school. The order sent her to Stanford for a doctorate in English literature (1948), and she became college president in 1957. Six years later she was elected Mother General. Says Corita Kent, the ex-nun and artist...
Taking the lead out of gasoline appears to be a necessary step in cutting down air pollution caused by automobile exhaust fumes. Though not one of the major air pollutants itself, lead befouls most present-day antipollution devices. President Nixon, in his message to Congress last week (see ENVIRONMENT), proposed strict new Government standards to eliminate virtually all auto-caused pollution by 1975. Detroit could accomplish this by replacing the internal-combustion engine with hybrid cars that combine a small gas engine and an electric motor, or engines that run entirely on electricity, steam or even natural...