Word: east
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet intentions, but Gromyko remained unhelpful. Gromyko was equally uncooperative during a chat with West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, who came away with the impression that the Soviets were unyielding in their determination to prevent the Federal Republic from having any further trade and diplomatic contacts with the East bloc...
...there was ever hope for a limit to the arms race in the Middle East, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko quashed it during his visit to the U.S. He was simply uninterested. Accordingly, last week President Johnson responded to a year-old Israeli request for 50 U.S. F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers to match the growing supersonic strength of the Arab air forces. He ordered the State Department to begin negotiations with Israel about the sale of the jets-thereby making possible continued Israeli superiority...
...manufactured momentum, reinforced by the fact that the foreign ministers of the hostile parties were attending the U.N. General Assembly. Arabs and Israelis felt the diplomatic pressure to the extent of revealing the negotiating positions that they had disclosed privately to Gunnar Jarring, the U.N.'s Middle East mediator...
...with the Arabs, until now an Israeli precondition for negotiations. But, insisted Eban, any agreement would have to be signed by all parties. Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad revealed that he would be willing to negotiate with Jarring a "timetable" to put into effect the U.N. Middle East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state in the area "to live in peace." The Egyptians also said that once a settlement was achieved, Israeli ships would be permitted the use of the Suez Canal...
...Monzingo clamped on the black beret worn by U.S. Navymen in Viet Nam, stepped aboard PBR (Patrol Boat River) 756 and headed for a rendezvous with the fully loaded U.S. tanker Kalydon. So did the Viet Cong. Three hours later, the battle exploded. From the Long Tau's east bank, ambushers fired five Communist-made B40 rockets at the tanker. All five missed, and Monzingo's two-boat force foamed toward the attackers, blasting away with M-60 machine guns and M-79 grenade launchers. Within minutes, Vietnamese Regional Force troopers moved inland to catch the fleeing...