Word: laqueur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should scuttle all attempts at detente and arms control to protest the Russians' behavior. To be sure, an evenhanded strengthening of NATO's conventional defenses is in order, and the U.S. must insist on foolproof surveillance clauses in any nuclear-arms-reduction treaty. London Historian Walter Laqueur points out: "As Soviet foreign policy becomes less Communist in character, it also becomes less predictable and rational. The ideological appeal of Soviet Communism no longer exists, but the Soviet Union still has built-in drives toward expansion...