Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave the victor states (obviously including Russia) the right to intervene unilaterally against the renewal of an aggressive policy by an "enemy state." Russia claims that this applies to any "neo-Nazi" threat in West Germany. The U.S., Britain and France have assured Bonn in the past that the NATO treaty, which guarantees an allied riposte to any attack on West Germany, makes the clauses obsolete. Nonetheless, all three decided to put it in writing for the Kremlin after the Russians coupled their Czech invasion with an intense propaganda attack on Bonn. Both Pravda and Izvestia responded to the allied...
...military action. While U.S. officials do not discount the Kremlin's tough language entirely, they tend to think that the Russians are well aware that an armed confrontation in West Germany could swiftly lead to cataclysm. Anxious to emphasize its concern nonetheless, the U.S. last week announced that NATO maneuvers, originally scheduled for mid-1969, may be moved up to the first of the year. On several occasions, top State Department officials reiterated that the allies viewed the situation with the utmost gravity...
...years of this decade, for example, the Corporation voted degrees to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the head of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the head of the Federal Reserve System, the head of the Agency for International Development, the secretary-general of NATO, and three presidents of Latin American nations. During the same period, no degrees were granted to Negroes. (In 1967, Harvard did grant a degree to the Negro President of Moorhouse College, and in 1968 honored Whitney Young...
...this bears on the debate over how the U.S. should now behave toward the Soviet Union. Some argue that the U.S. 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...
...long term, however, any major beefing-up of NATO rests not with the U.S. but with the West Europeans themselves. One of the familiar ironies of the nuclear standoff between the superpowers is that it has restored the importance of conventional warfare. While the West Europeans rightfully look to the U.S. for protection from nuclear attack, they can and should look to their own resources for the new manpower necessary to bring NATO's conventional forces back in balance with its potential Communist antagonists...