Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold war ice, Gloucester County would have been flooded. Johnson, towering over his stocky, grizzled guest, wore his most affable smile; Kosygin, normally grim in public, grinned shyly. "We have exchanged views on a number of international questions," Johnson said. "We also exchanged views on the questions of direct bilateral relations between the Soviet Union and the United States of America." It was, in the words of countless diplomatic bulletins, "a very good and very useful meeting...
...cause, although he shrewdly avoided crowing over the Soviet-Arab defeat. Specifically, he put the American imprimatur on Israel's premises for peace: Arab recognition of Israeli statehood, an end to the state of belligerence that has existed since 1948, free use of Suez and the Strait of Tiran, direct Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. Yet he also skirted the role of Israeli advocate. "Certainly," he said, "[Israeli] troops must be withdrawn...
Even though it became the custodial power of the Arab world, the Soviet Union found that it could not control events. While the Soviets had every reason to welcome turbulence in the area, they could not restrain their clients from provoking an explosion that eventually threatened a direct Russian-U.S. military confrontation?which might well have occurred if the tide of battle three weeks ago had flowed differently and Israel had been faced with extinction...
...almost every direct postwar confrontation with the West, Moscow backed off or down. Major milestones...
...that, Negro marchers took to the streets in nearby Montgomery, a city whose mayor, Earl James, prefers to handle civil rights demonstrators without violence. Although Alabama's Governor Lurleen Wallace sent in National Guardsmen, Mayor James's police gave the Negroes an escort and thus precluded a direct confrontation. Released on $500 bail, Carmichael tried to whip up the mob with black-power speeches, but its members-mostly youngsters-only cheered a bit and sang a few songs, then broke up and went home...