Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negative fact that no one in Washington has any idea if and how a halt would influence the Paris talks. Pessimists in the intelligence community are convinced that a unilateral U.S. concession would simply lead to another difficult demand by Hanoi. The North Vietnamese might well, for example, insist that since the U.S. and North Viet Nam had finished the pressing business between them, the U.S. could now go talk to the National Liberation Front about the rest of the war. That the U.S. is not eager to do: the Front controls neither infiltration nor force levels nor the Demilitarized...
...were a sham, and that all the promises of freedom and reform in the country were to be obliterated by the Soviet occupiers for a long time to come. By that grim process, the Kremlin was altering the context of East-West dealings as well. Though the Soviet leaders insist that the intervention in Czechoslovakia is a domestic matter, it inevitably affects, and chills, U.S.-Soviet relations...
...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...
What sort of bargain Svoboda and Dubcek might be able to strike in Moscow remained problematical. Pravda's massive editorial sounding the warning on the invasion made it clear that the Kremlin wants to be assured of several things before it withdraws its army. The Russians insist that the old-line cad res be kept in their jobs in the party and government. They want press freedoms curtailed. They want guarantees that Czechoslovakia's economy will remain oriented toward the Soviet bloc...
Whether the Czechoslovak people would accept it remained to be seen. Having tasted the heady air of freedom the past eight months and in their own way tested their mettle against Soviet tanks last week, they might well insist on a greater say in their own destiny in the future. Passive resistance is an art that, once mastered, can be applied in more than one situation...