Word: communistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source." Should either a Chinese or a Soviet Strangelove go berserk, an attack might strike anywhere-and a limited defense would not necessarily be effective against it. Nixon's third stated aim was the shakiest: "Defense of the American people against the kind of nuclear attack which Communist China is likely to be able to mount within the decade." It was a difficult line of reasoning to maintain, since the Chinese, until at least the mid-1970s, will not have the sophisticated weaponry to zero in on U.S. ICBM sites. They would be readier for the less precise task...
...Nixon's ABM announcement dashed hopes that he would drastically cut back military spending, his restrained response-or non-response-to the Communist offensive in Viet Nam unsettled some of his more hawkish supporters. Some of his critics attacked on both fronts. South Dakota's George McGovern, one of the Senate's most steadfast antiwar spokesmen, called the ABM decision, "a blunder comparable to the decision to escalate the war in Viet Nam in 1965." In a speech planned for delivery this week, McGovern aimed one of the bitterest attacks on the war heard since...
Double Casualties. Nixon thus finds himself in a two-way squeeze of renewed criticism at home and military pressure from the enemy in Viet Nam. Not long after the Communist spring offensive began, he declared: "We will not tolerate attacks that result in heavier casualties to our men at a time when we are honestly trying to seek peace at the conference table in Paris. An appropriate response to these attacks will be made if they continue." The attacks have gone on, and while the U.S. combat toll fell off from 453 in the first week of the offensive...
...probably the first time that any Soviet envoy had so formally attacked the policies of the other Communist giant. Behind Tsarapkin's words was a warning: any further tightening of the profitable West German-Chinese trade links would be most unwelcome to the Russians. In Paris, Rome and Tokyo, Tsarapkin's colleagues were giving the French, Italian and Japanese Foreign Ministers roughly the same message. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau also got the word. The intent was clear: China, no longer a brotherly socialist nation but instead a dangerous foe, should be expelled from the ranks...
Blood on the Border. Within the Communist world, the Soviet campaign was even more aggressive. A joint Soviet-Czech communique "emphatically condemned the recent provocative actions of the Chinese splitters, which inflict serious damage on the forces of socialism." Pravda, organ of the Soviet Communist Party, noted that Mao Tse-tung and his clique had revealed "once more the extent of their political degradation," and the Soviet press continued to bare details of the bloody Ussuri River border clash in the Far East, which, the Russians claim, cost the lives of 31 Russian frontier guards...