Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there much basis for argument that the Soviets felt free to act because the U.S. is tied down in Asia. The U.S. had no such preoccupation in 1956 when the Russians moved with far greater savagery to suppress the Hungarian uprising. And the involvement in Viet Nam was insignificant in 1962, when the Russians sanctioned erection of the Berlin Wall. In all three cases, the only kind of effective U.S. response would have involved the threat of large-scale military action?and the probability of World War III. Few would argue that the stakes were worth...
...there was never any argument in the Kremlin over the necessity of bringing the Czechoslovaks to heel, only a dispute about how best to do it. The precedent of Hungary in 1956 provided a proven way, but one that carried opprobrium. Nonetheless, the Soviets took it, well aware that the world was certain to cry shame, and in the full knowledge that it would destroy any chance of the conference of Communist parties scheduled for this winter. In that conference, Moscow had hoped to demonstrate once and for all to Peking its leadership of world Communism...
...unnaturally quiet. There were those who argued that Hanoi was purposefully scaling down the war and that the U.S. should reciprocate by ending all bombing of North Viet Nam. The allied command insisted that the Communists had mere ly paused to regroup and resupply. Last week Hanoi ended the argument as Communist forces came out fighting the length of the narrow country, mounting as many as 50 coordinated assaults in a single day. Even so, the Communist campaign was weaker than the Tet offensive or the second wave of at tacks in May and June. As a result, the allies...
Dwindling Pressures. By its 5-0 vote to cut the discount rate, the Reserve Board sided with Administration economists who contend that inflationary pressures in the economy are dwindling because of the 10% income-tax surcharge enacted in late June. Unless the credit brakes were eased, so their argument ran, the combination of both fiscal and monetary restraint could slow the economy too much and create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts...
Many shipowners agree with President Manuel Diaz of American Export Isbrandtsen Lines that the Soviet fleet is a "very real threat." Since the Soviet government need not show a profit on its ships, goes the argument, Communist ships could easily cut rates and drive free-world ships out of business. For their part, the Russians say that they are anxious to join the rate-setting conferences that they once condemned as "capitalist cartels." "I see no reason why we should not operate like other shipping men," says George Maslov, London-based boss of Russia's Anglo-Soviet Shipping...