Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spend an additional $180 million and to bring its twelve divisions up to strength. The British managed a neat juggling act by announcing a hike in their contribution without any increase in defense spending, accomplished in part by pledging to NATO some of the forces being withdrawn from east of Suez...
...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 that had outlined "precisely what...
...that, in turn, the experts believed, would lead to the fall of Communist Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka in Poland and "a likely eventual loss of the Soviet hold over East Germany...
...probably Communist government in Viet Nam in the not too distant future. Traditionally, a strong Viet Nam has always meant trouble for Cambodia, and the Prince is now swinging toward the U.S. in order to preserve a counterweight to what he sees as the coming threat from the East. Thus the kindnesses toward the eleven G.I.s, whom Sihanouk seems increasingly eager to hand over. "Their stay is too expensive," he joked last week. "I have to pay for many good lunches for them...
...back, they are far less unanimous on the future of U.S. forces there. If nuclear weapons are banned from Okinawa, as they are banned in Japan itself, the Japanese would have to forgo an important part of their U.S. nuclear umbrella-and take on a larger share of Far East defense. For its part, the U.S. is unwilling to set a date for handing back Okinawa until the Japanese resolve that question, or until prospects improve for peace in Asia...