Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position: "If you give the Russians anything before the talks begin, then either the negotiations never start or they drag on for several years without accomplishing anything. The Soviet Union will wait to see how much they can get before they sit down." McNamara, when he argued for arms control and against certain weapons projects, often provided a counterweight to civilian militarism on Capitol Hill. Today the balance is tipped sharply so that opposition to the military, particularly in the Senate, threatens to go to the opposite extreme. While the new skepticism can have healthy results in terms...
...suppress the protests, the Soviets would send in their tanks to crush the demonstrators. As the country marked its "Day of Shame," the Soviets kept their 100,000 occupation troops well out of sight, though they were poised to strike in the event the demonstrations got out of control. There were even rumors that archconservative elements in the Czechoslovak party might provoke serious outbursts in order to provide the Soviets with a pretext for another intervention...
THOUGH water cannon and police truncheons kept last week's demonstrations in Czechoslovakia under control, mere force is not likely to suppress other aftereffects of last year's invasion. Reflecting on the developments of the past twelve months, TIME Correspondent, Jerrold Schecter reports from Moscow: "The invasion of Czechoslovakia is now regarded as an overt admission of the inability of the Soviet leadership to accept and deal with political and economic change in the Communist world. Though most Soviet citizens accept the official explanation that counterrevolution and the threat of West German aggression required the intervention in Czechoslovakia...
...most respects, the U.S. has carried on business as usual with the Soviets. In the area of arms control, however, the invasion may prove to have had a lasting and lamentable impact. On the eve of the invasion, Moscow had advised Washington that it was ready to launch the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) on Sept. 30, 1968 (see THE NATION). After the Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague, the U.S. felt compelled to cancel the talks. They have yet to be rescheduled. Meanwhile, the race between the two superpowers to develop antiballistic missile systems and rockets with multiple warheads...
...khaki bush suit, he told 400 cheering members of the ruling United National Independence Party that he was "asking" the owners of the mines to give 51% of their shares to the state. "I do not think," he said, "that the nation can achieve economic independence without acquiring full control of the existing mines...