Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cashing In. Britain's "Yes-at the U.N." reply to Khrushchev was different only in emphasis from the joint line Dulles and Lloyd had earlier agreed upon: the British accented the mutual willingness to talk; the U.S. emphasized the qualifications. Britain's answer, phrased with the terse and straightforward authority of Macmillan's personal voice, overnight united all British parties behind the government and gave it such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist...
...honored its contract with the Iraq Petroleum Co. (predominantly British, French and American), though it was also interested in "modifying" the fifty-fifty contract by negotiation-as Nuri had been too. The new government proclaimed its withdrawal from the Arab Union with Jordan and signed a treaty of mutual defense with Nasser, but then astonished everyone by asserting, in the words of Hashim Jawad, its new delegate to the U.N., that "Iraq has never renounced the Baghdad Pact. It has never been considered." And he added: "Our friendship to the United States is still the same...
...initial strategic strikes by modern jet bombers, intercontinental and intermediate range rockets and missiles, and submarine-launched missiles, will wreak devastation upon both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and upon their chief allies. But does mutual devastation spell mutual defeat? The Soviets answer: no. The priority strikes will destroy the enemy's strategic air and missile bases insofar as these are known. Major cities and industrial centers, on a lower level of priority, will also suffer heavily. Radiological and bacteriological weapons may be used. But this enormous mutual destruction will probably consume the major portion of the respective...
...Tactical' air power and rockets, those forces designated to attack the enemy's military forces up to roughly a 1,000-mile range from the starting borders, would similarly engage in mutual nuclear strikes. But here the Soviets do not see a mutual stalemate. The heart of such a capability is the ground forces-trained for nuclear war, armed with nuclear weapons-and here the war would begin with a serious imbalance: a preponderance of Soviet forces...
...arms were live replacements for practice warheads that the U.S. shipped to Cuba's President Batista by mistake in 1957 under the mutual-security pact. They represented no change in the current U.S. embargo on arms to Batista. But the rebels, buffeted by combat and terrorism that have taken at least 3,000 Cuban lives, see the world more and more as either friend or enemy, with no middle ground...