Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Utmost Confidence." Herter's proposition was recognized from the beginning as straining the bounds of international law (see box, next page), and promised a briefcase full of problems. But both par ties in Congress closed ranks behind it. In the Senate, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson said: "Espionage and intelligence...
The apprehensions, as they so often are, were exaggerated. The incident, coupled with Khrushchev's recent intransigence, has certainly heated up the cold war. But people everywhere have accepted the reality of the cold war, which has its own kinds of maneuvers, battles, tactics and weapons.
For reasons of his own, Nikita Khrushchev chose to make a spectacular out of the U-2 incident (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington, there were some calls for a congressional investigation, and in both the U.S. and Britain some fears were expressed that the U.S., by risking the U-2...
The talk of endangered agreements at the summit showed a short memory of what the cold war was all about and how it got that way. Under standard Communist terms no agreements of any substance or durability were likely to be possible at the summit, before or after the U...
Khrushchev's move was also simple tactics. In recent weeks, Western leaders had seemed to take him too much for granted. Official leaks spoke of Khrushchev's "need" to be conciliatory at the summit because of public pressure at home, or because he had staked his prestige in...