Word: pact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What was he there for? To strike an other nonaggression pact with Russia like the one he signed in the wintry days of 1944? To conclude scientific agreements that would mount the French tricolor atop Soviet rockets and send them orbiting around the moon? Or was he there to speed the summer breakup of Europe's generation-old cold...
...heated by Christian Democrat Rainer Barzel's sweeping proposals for reunification in his "Unity Day" speech in New York (TIME, June 24). Barzel's concessions for reunification included leaving Soviet troops within a reconstituted Germany as a protection of Soviet interests in the "northern tier" of Warsaw Pact nations. Barzel believes that even in a "neutralized" non-nuclear Germany, with a legal Communist Party and Soviet presence, West German wealth and pro-democratic institutions would ultimately triumph...
...remains at the very heart of Europe's past history and future development. Both of the world's two great powers have every reason to want their soldiers out of the frigid zones of occupation. In Paris last March, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin announced: "The War saw Pact nations will either reduce their military forces or even abolish them if a corresponding move is undertaken by the NATO allies in West Europe." Moscow quickly quenched any flaming hopes over that issue by reiterating its hard line on the subject of Viet Nam, but still it was obvious that...
Russia obviously has much to gain by restructuring the Warsaw Pact. Pressure is on from Moscow's allies-principally Rumania-to cut back on defense costs and remove Russian troops from East Germany, Hungary and Poland. After all, they have a way of discouraging nationalism. Nearly half of the Soviet ground force is currently stationed west of the Urals-where much less than half the danger to Russia now originates. The only hot war in the world is in the Far East, and Red China is still hungry for the Mongolian territory Russia claims...
...trying to do too much too fast. Too much private investment, too much government spending, rising consumer appetites. And all of the coun tries are looking to monetary policies alone for avoiding the inflationary im pact." So said Federal Reserve Board Member Dewey Daane last week, focusing on the fact that the U.S., among other countries, has sought to restrain its economic exuberance by making money costlier and scarcer than at any other time in the 1960s...