Word: overflights
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...really writing a constitution." The Caracas delegates cannot just draw lines on the map the way Pope Alexander VI did when he split world navigation rights between Spain and Portugal in 1493. Rather, they have a three-dimensional task: they must apportion resources (fish, minerals), rights (transit, overflight) and responsibilities (environmental protection, resource conservation) among a host of competing interests. "If you know a good tranquilizer salesman, send him on down," cracks a delegate. "He'll get rich...
Thaws and Freezes. In addition to putting blatant pressures on Rumania, the Soviets have been demanding from Yugoslavia overflight rights for their warplanes and bunkering privileges for Russian warships at Yugoslavia's Adriatic ports. In an accompanying orchestration of political threats, Soviet officials privately warned that Yugoslavia's regional rivalries and its decentralization program were endangering the primacy of Communism in the country...
...behaved brusquely and temperamentally. He disliked Richard Nixon, particularly after his 1959 debate with the then Vice President in the U.S. "kitchen exhibit" in Moscow. He respected Dwight Eisenhower, but this did not prevent him from savagely attacking Ike and torpedoing the 1960 summit conference following the U-2 overflight. He thought John Kennedy a pushover when they met in Vienna in 1961-a miscalculation that led directly to the Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the verge of nuclear war. Khrushchev proclaimed the confrontation a triumph because it ended in an assurance from Kennedy that...
...overflight could once provoke crisis, as the Francis Gary Powers incident did in 1960, the elaborately precise spy satellite systems of the U.S. and Soviet Union a decade later have created and enforced a de facto "open skies" policy between the two superpowers. Today such satellites slide through space like disembodied eyes recording an astonishing variety of information. Just over a month ago, for example, the Pentagon revealed that the latest Soviet S59 ICBM ground tubes are exactly 20 ft. in diameter...
...bases were "hotbeds of aggression, intervention and espionage" created by "the mad desire of U.S. imperialism to dictate its will to all mankind." Pravda hinted that the U.S. had "reincarnated" the policies of John Foster Dulles. It also made an absurd comparison between the U-8's accidental overflight and the U-2 spy-plane affair of 1960. While the two flights "might have had different concrete aims," said Pravda, both were "aimed against the state interests and security of the U.S.S.R...