Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allies were reluctant to take any retaliatory action, such as refusing to grant travel documents to East Germans for trips to NATO countries, because the East Germans had carefully left U.S., British and French access rights untouched. For its part, the West German government was unwilling to hit Ulbricht where it would hurt him most-restricting inter-German trade-since that would also hurt the average East German. Kurt Kiesinger's Grand Coalition is committed to a policy of trying to make life easier, not harder, for the East German population. Furthermore, because of the partial success...
Harlan Cleveland, D.LET., U.S. Ambassador to NATO...
...Italy's dominant Christian Democrats. Hoping to move the Christian Democrats to do far more for Italy's middle-class and poor citizens, Nenni cut his ties with the powerful Communist Party, merged with the moderate Social Democrats, abandoned his opposition to Italy's participation in NATO, and even took an "understanding" position toward the U.S. role in Viet Nam. In return, the Christian Democrats promised improvements in housing, higher education, pensions and social welfare, and reform of Italy's cosseted bureaucracy...
...program promising reform rather than revolution, affluence rather than ideology. They emphasized the Center-Left's failures by promising similar measures themselves, such as a $50 monthly pension, rights for women, low-cost housing, a more efficient tax-collecting system. In foreign policy, they advocated withdrawal from NATO, but avoided calling for membership in the Moscow-run Warsaw Pact. They also won new voters among Catholics, arguing that Pope John's Vatican Council had liberated Catholics to vote Communist in good conscience if they wished...
Died. Major General Ivan Agayants, 57, high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, a deputy director in the huge State Security Committee (KGB), whose twin specialties were NATO espionage and the dissemination of "black propaganda" to undercut enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli...