Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties, less than a fourth have sided with the So viet Union-and most of those that have are small and relatively insignificant. There have been few changes of heart in Moscow's favor as the weeks have progressed. The dissenters protesting the invasion include the most important European Communist parties; they continue not only to criticize the Soviet Union but also to stake out in dependent positions. The situation is without precedent in Communist history, and contrasts sharply with the post-Hungary period when the parties loyally supported Moscow, even though many members quit. Unless the Soviets...
...British party remains alienated from Moscow; so do nearly all the other West European and Scandinavian parties, except the tiny hard-line groups in Portugal, Luxembourg, West Germany and West Berlin. Whether the voters will understand these new distinctions is another matter. The Finnish and Swedish parties both suffered severe losses in recent elections, even though their leaders had denounced the Soviets at the time of the invasion...
...marked "Top Secret" and "Secret." It took police and the West German Counter Espionage Service four days to identify the owner of the film. He proved to be Rear Admiral Hermann Ludke, formerly deputy chief (early 1966 to mid-1967) of the logistics section of SHAPE, NATO's European command, who was on the eve of his retirement from the service...
Ludke had held a CTS (Cosmic Top Secret) clearance in the SHAPE job and knew the most sensitive details of NATO logistics: the capacities of European ports, transport, defense industries; the location of nuclear weapons depots and ordnance stockpiles of the NATO armies, virtually down to the number of available artillery rounds. The photos suggested that he might be transmitting secrets to NATO's enemies...
...their zeal, Tanzanians have turned up some curious threats to their cultural independence, and sparked a lively debate. Football, declared one letter to an editor, is "a degrading product of colonialism and elite European boarding schools. African culture never produced such a clownish performance." On the other side, an upholder of law and order wrote that "the Wall Street mob of American society that watched a busty woman is more desirable than the unruly mob that besieged terrified girls in the Kariakoo market...