Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Moscow is still sensitive about any nascent kult lichnosti, or personality cult, Brezhnev is nonetheless receiving a public relations buildup not seen since Khrushchev's time. In the recent one-slate Supreme Soviet elections, Brezhnev was referred to as the "first candidate" and as "head of the Politburo"-an interesting title since the Politburo supposedly has no head. If there is opposition to détente in Moscow, Brezhnev has effectively silenced it, at least publicly, and even those who are thought to be ideological hardliners, like Secret Police Chief Yuri Andropov and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, now publicly...
President Hafez Assad, who politely received Nixon at the airport, had made no effort to get out big crowds. Not until the presidential limousine reached Damascus, 28 miles from the airport, was there any buildup of spectators along the roadside. Then Nixon asked that the roof of the car be opened, and the two Presidents stood to wave to the crowd, which numbered perhaps 100,000. The people smiled and waved back but did little cheering. Though American flags dotted the route, only one placard was visible. It said pointedly: REVOLUTIONARY DAMASCUS WELCOMES PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON...
...peacetime record, topped this year's budget by $5.5 billion. Schlesinger blamed the increase on inflation and pay increases. He noted that Pentagon spending now amounts to less than 6% of the U.S. gross national product; it was 8.3% in 1964, the year before the U.S. military buildup in South Viet Nam. Even so, critics like Paul Warnke, an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Johnson Administration, believe that $11 billion could be trimmed from the budget request without endangering the nation's security...
First Strike. But the mood on Capitol Hill was shaped by the economic slowdown, the apparent lack of progress at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with Russia and the Soviet arms buildup. As a result, most Congressmen were opposed to more than token cuts even before they began work on the Pentagon budget, which is traditionally broken up into several bills. The most controversial is the procurement bill, which contains money for researching, developing and buying new weapons. Later, Congress will vote separate bills for military personnel, retirement, operations and maintenance...
...Angola operations, black students occupied Mass Hall the next day. This year, when Harvard opposed a near-identical resolution, no one seemed to notice. Part of the reason, of course, is the changing times, but part is also that the 1972 abstention came after a two-month-long buildup and was an unprecedented move, while this year's vote was announced routinely along with 25 other resolutions...