Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet tanks clanking into Czechoslovakia were still reverberating throughout Europe and the world last week when the ominous rumblings of a new-and potentially far more dangerous-Soviet aggression sounded. The target this time was Rumania, the Warsaw Pact nation that has long defied Moscow's hegemony in Eastern Europe by insisting on its right to an independent foreign policy and has unwaveringly supported the Czechoslovaks in their triumphs and tragedy. There was every prospect that the Rumanians, unlike the Czechoslovaks, would fight should the Soviets invade. The Rumanian Ambassador to Bonn formally informed the West German Foreign Ministry...
...President Lyndon Johnson spoke out. Though he did not specifically cite Rumania in an otherwise routine speech before a San Antonio milk producers' convention, he made his meaning clear. "There are rumors," he said, "that this action [against Czechoslovakia] might be repeated elsewhere in the days ahead in Eastern Europe. We cannot and we must not return in the year 1968 to a world of unbridled aggression. Let no one unleash the dogs...
...Eastern Europe, Alexander Dubcek's two Communist allies were, if anything, stronger in their protest. "The attack on Czechoslovakia," said Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, "is a significant historical rupture in the relations among Socialist countries." Rumanian Presi dent and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu called it "a great mistake, a grave danger to peace...
Aghast, his father wangled a job transfer to Michigan and told Burt that his next school would be an Eastern board ing school. Burt laughed in his father's face and disappeared for three weeks. When he returned, it was to announce his enlistment in the Marines. The fam ily now lives in Michigan. Burt is a pfc. in Viet...
Nebraska-born Baldrige worked his way up from pouring iron to the presi dency of Connecticut's Eastern Co. be fore being tapped for the Scovill...