Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minever Cheever complex. The Big Red band not only plays in tune (unusual for Ivy halftime shows), it dances, high-steps, goose steps, pirrouettes, clicks it heels together, and throws its chest out and its stomach in while forming a waving American flag in a salute to Irving Berlin. Poor Cornell bandies. Big Ten rejects. They are the Bob Blackman's of the Ivy musical world...
...Pakistan and India where America's interests are as deeply involved as anywhere. Members of the Nixon team have openly indicated that they expect America to gain considerable bargaining advantages over Russia due to China's reentry on the world scene. For example Russia eased considerably its stand over Berlin in signing the new agreement this summer. And now Nixon feels he can gain new terms with the Russians by a trip to Moscow next...
...torpedo the projected European security conference, through which the Soviets hope to win Western recognition of the status quo in Eastern Europe. In fact, the British action appears to have been carefully timed to avoid damaging the conference. The British waited to move until after the four-power Berlin agreement was signed last month, and they acted well before the meeting, which is not likely to take place before...
...Compound in a suburb of East Berlin will rattle off a burst of jumbled numbers aimed at a KGB undercover agent somewhere in Western Europe. The agent will respond by using the "dead-letter box" system or a powerful two-way radio no larger than three packs of king-size cigarettes...
...military developments and Chinese nuclear-weapons progress, and with sound assessments of the situation in Viet Nam (which were frequently ignored 6y policymakers). Among its setbacks: the Bay of Pigs, although this was a failure of decision making as well as intelligence, and the failure to warn of the Berlin Wall's construction in 1961 or Khruschchev's fall from power in 1964. In some cases, the agency was plagued by the ever-present problem of drawing the line between operations and intelligence; the line became unrecognizably blurred in places like Laos and Guatemala...