Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peaceful coexistence at the 19th Pugwash conference of scholars from East and West. In the meeting halls, the delegates, not so frolicsome, sailed rhetorical missiles-though there was general agreement that arms reduction would be wonderful (see p. 21). Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's Institute of American Studies, put the issue in perspective: "As long as the U.S.A. has superiority over the U.S.S.R., it is considered that everything is all right. For Americans are sure they are the good guys, intending no harm to anybody. But I assure you that we in the Soviet Union also consider ourselves...
Disarmament advocates made new pleas for a moratorium on testing MIRVs -clusters of independently targeted warheads atop a single missile, a new weapon that they fear will set off one more round in the seemingly endless arms race. The Pentagon, however, is anxious that American opinion-and the American delegation-not underestimate the Soviet military challenge to the U.S. Therefore the Defense Department leaked new intelligence estimates pointing to one conclusion: that the Soviet Union is rapidly building up its nuclear-arms stockpile and is already taking the lead from the U.S. in one critical department of potential destruction...
...overall balance, the U.S. is still well ahead of the U.S.S.R. in its ability to deliver strategic weapons (see chart). American nuclear-missile submarines and H-bombers vastly outnumber their Soviet counterparts. To be sure, the larger average size of Soviet warheads gives the U.S.S.R. an enormous lead in deliverable megatonnage, but whether that is an advantage is debatable. There has long been dispute over the relative efficacy of big-yield weapons v. larger numbers of smaller warheads. The Soviet fondness for monster missiles worries some American strategists, who feel that the U.S.S.R. could eventually use them to wipe...
...survey covered 1,589 people, 81% of whom said they have been following the case at least "fairly closely." Since Kennedy had figured prominently in presidential speculation, Harris matched him against the 1968 Republican and American Independent candidates to see how he stood in August and at the present. The sampling immediately after the accident gave Nixon 48%, Kennedy 38% and George Wallace 8%. Now Nixon gets 54%, Kennedy 30%, and Wallace 9%. Other results of the two polls are summarized in a series of statements with which respondents were asked to agree or disagree...
Arafat breathed fiery defiance. "Arab revolutionaries have a right to fight anywhere," he said. He insisted that "American imperialism is behind all actions hostile to the Arab nation." Playing on the pride of the Lebanese in their business acumen, he warned that unless Israel is wiped out, "it is bound to be proved that Israelis are better businessmen than Lebanese...