Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seismic Quaver. Whatever buildup eventually results, it will only represent progress toward the force levels long ago set out for NATO, and never achieved. The new concerns are not causing any genuine enlargement of the organization's military muscle. A far more difficult task confronting the ministers and the commanders is what to do if the men in Moscow decide to invade yet another socialist country like Rumania or Yugoslavia. The West has a bad conscience about Czechoslovakia, feeling that somehow, somewhere along the line leading to Aug. 21, some pressure might have been exerted to dissuade the Soviets...
...Russians were equally adamant in defending the buildup of their fleet in the Mediterranean (see following story). "The Soviet Union is known to be a Black Sea and, hence, Mediterranean power," the government newspaper Izvestia proclaimed, declaring that Soviet ships were in the Mediterranean to stay. In Red Star, the organ of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Vice Admiral Nikolai Smirnov said it was "imperative for the Soviet Union, in the interests of security," to strengthen its fleet. The presence of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean, the admiral wrote, "does not allow the Sixth Fleet to carry out the Pentagon...
Finally a tremendous buildup started in the paper, it really started to build up awfully fast about '46, '47. It was during the war, I sent out a lot of papers to the various camps; and these boys--I got a lot of letters from them, and subscriptions...
...nubile Turkish blonde clad in a red veil, blue tunic and diaphanous harem pants. Local wags had suggested that De Gaulle had an even chance of sighting a Soviet warship en route to join the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. Though nothing was said about the impressive Russian naval buildup, De Gaulle had ordered a fat file on the Soviet fleet a week before the trip...
Forward Positioning. The NATO Council, which is the organization's highest policymaking group, declared that, apart from the unpredictability factor, NATO must take immediate action to cope with two new threats in Europe. One is the buildup of Soviet naval power in the Mediterranean that, according to NATO, last week reached a record high of 50 ships. The other is the forward positioning of Red Army troops in Central Europe...