Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Retaliation with biological weapons would be risky at best. It would be difficult to ensure that diseases spread among enemy troops would not infect friendly nations. In fact, there could be no guarantee that a retaliatory American germ attack would not cause a pandemic that eventually would infect the U.S. Added to these dangers are the continuing problems of safely developing, storing and transporting the germs...
...reasons of economy, not ideology. Two weeks ago, USIA rushed out a propaganda film called The Silent Majority. Those who had not seen it automatically assumed from the title that it was a partisan rebuttal to the antiwar march on Washington, and there were cries of foul. In fact, the film gives generally fair treatment to both sides...
...worry increased a bit last week as several Soviet leaders issued hawkish statements intended perhaps to placate Soviet military men about the talks. If anything, the bluster suggested a split among Soviet leaders over the possible effects of the arms talks-not a planned effort to sidetrack SALT. In fact, the outlook was that after another week or so of sessions in Helsinki, the two teams would go home to prepare for more substantive negotiations...
...published in the West next year, but without the approval of official Soviet organizations. As a result, Amalric has been denied his hard-currency royalties. That, in turn, prompted him last week to send a second open letter to six Western newspapers: "Stalin would have executed me for the fact that my books had been published abroad. His wretched successors only dare to embezzle a part of my money. It only reaffirms my opinion of the degradation and decrepitude of this regime...
Mean Northeasterners. Recalling stereotypical apologies for the Ole South, Russell Baker admitted that it is "true, as the Nixon Republicans assert, that the Northeast is not representative of the U.S." But "even the meanest Northeasterner has nothing against the conservative who knows his place. Many Northeasterners, in fact, grew up in the care of conservative mammies. Many also had conservative daddies." What's more, he added, we "eat at the same table with them...