Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promote the new Moscow-New York flights (though the regular Aeroflot and Pan Am flights will continue). Finally, at week's end, the State Department halted a cultural-exchange program with Poland, and announced that further moves were under consideration. A cultural program with Rumania-the only Warsaw Pact nation that did not join the Czech invasion -will continue...
...drastically altered the balance of power in Europe. The U.S., said Pravda, was merely warmongering. The fact is, however, that the balance of power has indeed been dangerously tipped by the massive infusion of Soviet troops and tanks into Central Europe at a point where NATO and Warsaw Pact borders meet. Even more important, the delicate psychological balance between the two superpowers and their allies has been upset. The Western Europeans are worried. In the U.S., there is a new stiffening of attitudes toward the Communist world (see THE NATION...
...insisting that it open new talks on their bilateral "friendship treaty," which President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu had resisted for nearly a year. Ceauşescu last week caved in, and the Soviets immediately came back at him with their other demand-that Rumania allow Warsaw Pact maneuvers to take place on its soil. It was, of course, the same ploy that the Soviets used on Dubcek prior to the invasion. Ceauşescu refused...
NATO Nightmares. There are now more Soviet combat troops in Central Europe than at any time since 1945. The arrival of 275,000 Soviet soldiers in Czechoslovakia drastically unbalances what for two decades had been a relative parity between the opposing NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. Furthermore, the new Soviet presence along the Bavarian border of Czechoslovakia turns the flank on NATO's ground defenses, erected and maintained to meet an attack across the flat plains of East Germany...
...soon as they were re-elected to a new Central Committee that Dubċek formed last week, Oldřich Svestka and Jan Filler issued denials that they had asked for Soviet intervention. The Soviets were still unable to identify the mysterious Czechoslovaks who had brought the Warsaw Pact forces running...