Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the week, events had seemed to be moving inexorably toward a possible Warsaw Pact intervention. The official East German news agency announced that fresh troops, tanks and armored cars had been sent to join the three-week-old Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. Pravda, meanwhile, charged...
In spite of all these compelling arguments for not going in, the Kremlin might ultimately decide that it has no choice. Indeed, according to a Western intelligence report, Brezhnev himself had to break a deadlock in the Politburo to block a Soviet decision to invade Poland last December. Last week...
That stern admonition-and the linkage between intervention and disarmament talks-had been engineered largely by U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who was making his first trip abroad since taking office. Weinberger had begun to sound invasion alarms the previous week after receiving intelligence reports of heightened Soviet military activity...
For the Soviets the consequences could be disastrous. First of all, there would be the strong possibility of armed resistance from the Polish population and even from units of the conscript-based armed forces. "The Poles will not stand aside as the Czechs did in 1968," predicts a Bonn Kremlinologist...
Saturday afternoon, in what Oberg termed the team's "worst match since the Charles River Cup against Dartmouth last spring," the ruggers allowed the Princeton forwards to control all but the last three minutes of the quarterfinal contest. But, Harvard broke back to defeat the Tigers 12-11 in an...