Word: lull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, the lull seemed a deliberate Soviet effort to warm the diplomatic atmosphere for the new round of negotiations on Berlin opening in Washington this week between Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the Kremlin's new Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Dobrynin. Moscow was aware that new U.S. proposals on Berlin were being circulated among the Western allies, obviously did not want to rock the boat until it saw what the West had to offer. In any case, the U.S. was still determined to retain allied access to the free city, and the Soviets showed no signs...
...Argentina might make him wonder whether the Alliance for Progress was worth it-or more necessary than ever. Guerrilla warfare in South Viet Nam and an easing of crisis in Berlin were the kinds of ups and downs of Communist harassment he had learned to live with. The lull in Berlin could remind him that there would be no such breathing space without the tax-supported military strength...
...Cold-War Calm. The President would like to think that the current lull in the cold war is a result of his policies of building up military strength and holding firm in negotiations, but thinks the lull is too dangerous and deceptive to be complacent about...
...group of U.S. troops, the lull was especially welcome. These were the men of the U.S. military mission- in Potsdam, deep inside the Soviet zone southwest of Berlin. Three weeks ago East German police machine-gunned a mission staff car, narrowly missed killing the two Americans inside. Immediately, U.S. European Army Commander in Chief General Bruce C. Clarke demanded an apology from his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Ivan S. Konev. When Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every...
Moscow last week seemed strangely quiet, becalmed by a news and diplomatic lull unparalleled in recent years. Virtually all the top Kremlin leaders were away from the capital, most of them probably down on the Black Sea coast talking business at Nikita Khrushchev's winter vacation spot. Hence the West's surprise when Moscow abruptly decided to heat up the Berlin crisis again with an ominous threat to the Allies' three air corridors that lead over Communist territory to the surrounded city...