Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chance. As students of psychological warfare, the Russians well knew that they risked being branded as enemies of peace by the bloc of neutral nations coveted by both East and West. But. as a man who lives by power. Khrushchev was forced by the requirements of power to take that chance. Russia badly needed to test its family of nuclear weapons. In particular. Russian scientists needed to test small, limited-yield battlefield weapons, a category in which the Soviet Union is thought to trail far behind the U.S. Moreover, with his eye on Berlin. Khrushchev was gambling that his ruthless...
...Soviet announcement of new nu clear tests did indeed hand the U.S. a major propaganda victory, although the leaders of 24 neutral nations meeting in Belgrade were slow to let their anger rise at the Russians. In the cold war of nerves, the U.S. had won its bet that it could out last the Russians at the test-ban conference table-the "bladder technique.'' as the approach was called by U.S. Negotiator Arthur Dean...
...Secretary Dean Rusk, CIA Director Allen Dulles and Bundy. The men were as yet uncertain about the precise reasons behind the Soviet move, but two points seemed clear. First, the Russians had lost a war of nerves and suffered a considerable propaganda defeat, particularly in the eyes of the neutral nations, by unilaterally breaking the atomic test moratorium. Second, the U.S. would have to resume its own tests...
Last week Given and 270,000 other teachers prepared to show, for the first time in their lives, the limits in their responsibility. In July a neutral negotiating committee urged the Conservative government to grant teachers a raise of $133 million. The goal: a $1,680 starting salary, $3,220 maximum. Then, as a first step in its new austerity campaign, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd slashed the recommended increase by $15.4 million and talked of giving no raises at all. Said the London Daily Herald: "A cynical and mean-minded betrayal of the nation's need...
...Laos should now go Communist, Sihanouk is sadly certain that Cambodia must eventually follow suit: "That is precisely why I struggled, unfortunately in vain, for a truly neutral Laos. Common frontiers are almost invariably sources of incidents and ouarrels. I am aware that a Communist Laos will give us, through force of circumstance, much worry...