Word: nuclearization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battles this year on the Ussuri and Amur rivers, which separate Siberia and Manchuria, the Soviets called in armor and heavy artillery to pound the Chinese. Tensions rose to the point where the Soviets hinted that they might even launch a preventive strike against China's nuclear installations unless Peking agreed to negotiations aimed at settling the conflict. The war of nerves was threatening to get out of hand. Last week, after months of trying to face down the stronger Soviets, the Chinese blinked first...
Vater Brandt has no such reservations. Once in the Palais, he can be expected to deal immediately with mark revaluation and the signing of the nuclear non-proliferation pact (which Kiesinger resisted on the ground that it could leave Germany at a disadvantage in peaceful nuclear research). Brandt's main task will be to look eastward. He and Scheel are agreed on an approach to East Germany, which the Christian Democrats preferred to pretend did not exist. In hopes of easing the economic lot of the people in the East, Brandt aims to stop short of full diplomatic recognition...
...likely to be an upward revaluation of the muscular German mark, probably fixing its price around the 26.50 level to which it has floated since it was cut loose from its old 250 price the day after the election (see BUSINESS). Also expected swiftly is ratification of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty?a move that could persuade several smaller, weaker countries to sign the document...
...sure, he stressed China's military might, but the emphasis was defensive. "On the vast land of China, wherever you go," he warned possible invaders, "there will be your burial ground." Lin made no mention of the fact that China had set off its first underground nuclear explosion and tested a hydrogen bomb in the atmosphere just before the anniversary...
...more humane than bullets and bombs. A liver-spotted general emeritus told me how germs give me (us-US) a bonus area of death, and how we had germs because the Russians had germs, and how we would like to fall back on gems if that would prevent nuclear holocaust. At the end of all of this Mike lowered his script and reassured me that this complex, emotional, controversial subject (his voice now granitic and beer dark) was being subjected to a general review by President Nixon. Dubious consolation...