Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tito summed up what may be the underlying purpose of his junket in telling Yugoslav newsmen who accompanied him: "The general impression from these countries is that they firmly will adhere to their attitude on foreign policy problems and international relations, that they are uncommitted and independent countries, and that they fight to lessen international tension...
More for the Newest. On the other side of the ledger, the budget calls for an overall spending decrease of $3.8 billion. Some $300 million is trimmed from what budgeteers label "Major National Security" defense, atomic energy, stockpiling and foreign military aid, which together add up to $45.8 billion, 59% of the $77 billion total...
...other departments of Major National Security, the budgetmakers raise atomic energy funds a lean 4% to $2.8 billion, trim strategic stockpiling funds, slice foreign military aid a surprising 20% to $1.8 billion...
Back in Washington, Mikoyan was greeted by still more Americans certain he had peace proposals packed away in his portfolio. Lunching on steak with members of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mikoyan waxed expansive on the Rapacki plan for neutralizing Germany, suggested that Russian and Western troops each withdraw 500 miles from Berlin. Such a retreat, leaving the Russians comfortably on their own soil, the U.S. uncomfortably somewhere west of Paris, had twice before been urged by the Russians, twice before been rejected by the West. Nonetheless, Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who had met Mikoyan during his headlined Kremlin...
...been "a useful exchange of views." What Mikoyan meant by "useful" only he knew-and Nikita Khrushchev would presumably find out. But what Washington hoped he meant was this: that Mikoyan, despite the ardor of his reception elsewhere, realized that the two men who actually direct U.S. foreign policy have no intention of being bulldozed, bluffed or cozened out of Berlin or anywhere else...