Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degrees. Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia would once again seriously chill the diplomatic atmosphere. It was Russian tanks in Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague may be, they are obviously preferable to the cataclysmic clarity that a conflict between the superpowers would afford...
...signs of progress. Said one Whitehall official: "There are some points which seem to signify an advance, for they pick up what are earlier Western proposals." The British believe, for example, that Kosygin's proposal for nuclear-disarmament zones might be an oblique response to recent hints from NATO's foreign ministers of a desire to negotiate mutual force reductions in Central Europe...
...NATO code name...
Dismissing NATO as "a completely useless affair," Zhukov admitted sportingly that the same might be said of the Warsaw Pact. "We must dissolve the two blocs and organize a system of European cooperation, economically, scientifically, culturally and even politically." For a start, Zhukov backs a Belgian project calling for a "Pan-European orientation conference," at which parliamentarians from all European countries would voice their plans for collaboration...
After a Bundestag debate, the Grand Coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists decided to take a few short-range measures to bolster Berlin somewhat, to encourage investment in the city and arrange for more air travel to and from it. Meanwhile, West Germany's NATO allies agreed to ban many East German businessmen and officials from their countries and to levy a $5 fee on travel documents for other East Germans visiting Western Europe. The steps were mild enough, but they were all the West seemed prepared to do for now to counter the new threat to the continued...