Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legendary Faust. He attained the power to create life?the tiny test-tube man, or homunculus?but only after he had bartered away his soul to the devil. If the new knowledge is used recklessly, Faustian man of the future may wonder if he, too, has not made a pact with dark forces...
...WARSAW PACT. Because the 24th Congress was the first since the 1968 Czechoslovak invasion, Brezhnev felt compelled to justify Soviet actions in quashing Prague's Springtime of Freedom. He insisted that the Czechoslovaks had called upon their Communist neighbors to help repulse imperialists and counterrevolutionaries. Should a similar situation arise elsewhere within the pact, he added, Soviet intervention would once more ensue. Later Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husák slavishly thanked the Soviets for invading his country...
DISARMAMENT. Brezhnev dusted off several old Soviet propaganda ploys. There was some hope in the West, however, that his plea for a reduction of forces in Central Europe might lead to talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact on mutual balanced force withdrawals. He also suggested a conference of the five nuclear powers (Britain, China, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R.) to discuss the total abolition of atomic weaponry-although both France and China sent regrets last time such a meeting was proposed...
...cool reception from their own superiors until McNamara's office offered encouragement. Only after the techniques of Systems Analysis established the real differences between American and Russian military capability in Europe was it possible to make a realistic comparison between the strength of NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations. Until then, the Army simply counted divisions one to one, ignoring U.S. superiority in firepower and support elements...
...nations signed a protocol prohibiting chemical and biological warfare. For a complex of reasons, the U.S. Senate never ratified the agreement; but as the decades passed, more and more nations did. Today, 85 nations are parties to the Geneva Protocol-including Communist China, the Soviet Union, the other Warsaw Pact countries and every member of NATO except the U.S. To President Nixon's credit, he sent the Geneva Protocol back to Capitol Hill last year for ratification. There was just one hitch. With Nixon's message went a statement from Secretary of State William Rogers...