Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NATO's bleak new heaquarters outside Brussels: "Hopes for détente were so high that they tended to put in doubt the very necessity of a common alliance." That was not the mood in Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant prospects of further military cutbacks in the budgets of member countries or of a drawdown in force levels. In the wastebasket were the blueprints for converting NATO into a nonmilitary instrument of East-West bridge building...
Officially as detached about NATO as ever, the French promised nothing. But Charles de Gaulle was shaken by the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the French have shown some signs of cooperation-where their own interests are clearly at stake. Some French commanders quietly continue to participate in infantry exercises with NATO forces in West Germany. French ships openly joined some 50 other vessels of the U.S., Britain, Italy and Greece in the alliance's "Operation Eden Apple" naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean last week...
...causing any genuine enlargement of the organization's military muscle. A far more difficult task confronting the ministers and the commanders is what to do if the men in Moscow decide to invade yet another socialist country like Rumania or Yugoslavia. The West has a bad conscience about Czechoslovakia, feeling that somehow, somewhere along the line leading to Aug. 21, some pressure might have been exerted to dissuade the Soviets from striking...
...demonstrate that such contingency plans might well be needed. In a speech in Warsaw, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev defiantly reasserted the new Soviet doctrine that has come to bear his name. Russia, he said, has the duty and the right to intervene not only in Communist countries like Czechoslovakia that are within the East bloc, but also, for that matter, in "any socialist country" where the forces of imperialism and capitalism and bourgeois revisionism threaten to make a come back. In repeating the justification for taking over in Czechoslovakia, Brezhnev cited a novel new source: an unnamed U.S. magazine...
...November FORTUNE, Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute research organization, wrote that most experts in the West anticipated that, without Soviet intervention, Czechoslovakia would start trading with West Germany, permit the establishment of strong Western cultural influences, allow a "general atrophy" of the Communist Party and the eventual flowering of social democracy...