Word: czechoslovakia
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...than try to stall for time. It was one of the more spectacular misjudgments of Thant's flaccid, nine-year stewardship. As a result, Egypt began mobilizing near Israel's borders, and the Six-Day War was on. In the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Nigerian civil war and the war in Indochina, U.N. impact has been...
...been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu as the only Eastern European star-quality representative at the meeting. Ceausescu, of course, made the trip not so much to visit the U.N. as to drum up trade deals and tour Disneyland (a treat...
...Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. The Western powers rejected the idea for lack of adequate guarantees and on the grounds that a nuclear shield in West Germany was essential against the Soviet bloc's preponderance of conventional arms...
...last surviving signer of the infamous Munich Agreement; of kidney disease; in Paris. After signing the agreement in 1938 with Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler, Daladier rationalized: "Should 15 million Europeans have been killed in order to oblige 3,000,000 Sudetens who wished to be German to remain in Czechoslovakia?" One year later, he came to the realization that, as he put it, "Hitler does not negotiate with nations which have submitted to him. He destroys them." By then it was too late. Daladier attempted to flee to Africa to join the Resistance, was captured by Vichy collaborationists and deported...
...East. They must also confront in some co-herent way the problem of imperialism, Communist or anti-Communist. Anti-imperialist convictions might endanger the Soviet-American detente-a detente which most liberals now exploit as a primary tactic against excessive military spending. The new isolationists ignored the invasion of Czechoslovakia or simply begged the issue by saying American imperialism in Vietnam justified Soviet imperialism in Czechoslovakia. Isolationists assume without question that the U. S. will never be attacked. They must now ask how much disarmament is compatible with national obligations to defend Western Europe and Japan. Instead, they affirm vaguely...