Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called the Gehlen theory "complete nonsense." Tass described it as a "fabrication" aimed at disrupting attempts for an East-West détente in Europe. Certainly the manuscript, which contains a detailed analysis of Soviet political and military goals for the next two decades and calls for a parallel buildup of Western military strength, can only be welcomed by foes of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik. That would include Die Welt Owner Axel Springer, whose criticism of the Brandt government borders on frenzy. Gehlen's memoirs could also be an overdramatized effort at self-justification...
Similarly, Klass writes, "the President entered the Cuban missile crisis with a very precise inventory of Soviet strategic missile and bomber strength, thanks to U.S. satellite photos." At the same time, the Soviets undoubtedly used their Cosmos satellites to watch the buildup of U.S. aircraft in Florida and the American task force assembled in the Caribbean. "What role, if any, Russian satellite pictures played in convincing Kremlin leaders that the U.S. was prepared to go the limit," Klass writes, "probably is known only to a few Russian leaders...
...Delhi, Yahya's charges of Indian collusion were seen as a buildup for a jihad, a Moslem holy war, against predominantly Hindu India. New Delhi is also concerned over Yahya's casual declaration during a recent interview that Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League leader now awaiting trial for treason, "might not be alive" by October. Last week 467 members of India's Parliament sent an appeal to U Thant to secure Mujib's release...
With the constitutional assembly scheduled to convene in March, Yahya began a covert troop buildup, flying soldiers dressed in civilian clothes to the East at night. Then he postponed the assembly, explaining that it could not meet until he could determine precisely how much power and autonomy Mujib wanted for the East. Mujib had not espoused full independence, but a loosened semblance of national unity under which each wing would control its own taxation, trade and foreign aid. To Yahya and the generals, that was unacceptable. On March 25, Yahya broke off the meetings he had been holding and flew...
Soviet Activity. If the weapons buildup is worrisome to Israel, the U.S. has shown concern over a marked buildup of Soviet intelligence activities in the Middle East. It was partly to investigate those activities that CIA Director Richard Helms recently visited Israel. Some points discussed when Helms conferred with officials of Ha'Mossad, or "the Institution," the Israeli equivalent...