Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Referring to your article "A Severe Case of Angst in Europe" [Oct. 4]. I should like to state that the events in neighboring Czechoslovakia and particularly the presence of Warsaw Pact troops in that country have understandably received utmost attention by the Austrian government. But I would like to make it absolutely clear that at no instance and from no quarter whatsoever any threats have been uttered against Austria which would have justified fears as to an eventual violation of Austrian neutrality. The measures taken by the Austrian government during the present crisis were primarily designed to maintain order...
EUROPE is shaken and unsettled. The sudden presence of 275,000 Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia has provoked a pervading sense of unease from Helsinki to Rome, tipped the military balance of power on the Continent in favor of the Warsaw Pact, and raised continuing worries about the reasonableness of the Soviet leaders...
...Austrians have scrupulously avoided any sort of cold war entanglements. Even so, the Soviets, angered that Austria has become a haven for Czechoslovak refugees (see following story), lashed out at the Austrians, charging, among other things, that the country's press sought to "blacken and revile" Warsaw Pact forces in Czechoslovakia. As improbable as any Soviet invasion seemed, the prudent Austrians considered dusting off an old contingency plan to move government headquarters westward from Vienna to Innsbruck in the event the Red Army marched into the country's eastern region, which until 13 years ago was the Soviet...
...thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch. Suddenly two pacifists, an American girl and an Englishman, appeared and began handing out leaflets in Russian urging the startled recipients to take "any peaceful action in your power" to bring about the withdrawal of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops from Czechoslovakia...
...satellites in hand is the obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border and as the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact forces paid a rushed visit to Sofia...