Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the U.S. is talking again to Japan's old enemy. India is worried about the U.S. overtures to China and the fact that Pakistan is enjoying a new stature with the White House since playing its role in the secret plans. So now India signs a new pact with Russia. The worries go on and on." It is, said Aiken, as if Nixon had dropped a large stone into a previously stagnant pond. The waves from the impact are widening...
There are other ominous parallels. The 1968 meetings were accompanied by military maneuvers, and last week a new Warsaw Pact exercise dubbed Opal 71 began in Hungary, uncomfortably close to Rumania's western frontier. Early next week full-scale war games are scheduled to begin in Bulgaria, near Rumania's southern border...
Cozy Relations. Moscow is irritated with Ceauşescu for a number of reasons. Rumanian combat units have not participated in Warsaw Pact maneuvers for more than three years. Under a law that he concocted shortly after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, foreign troops may not cross Rumanian territory without permission from the National Assembly. As it happens, the Assembly suddenly went into recess a few days ago. That means that Moscow will have to fly three full divisions, totaling as many as 40,000 men, to the impending war games in Bulgaria, or ship them across the Black...
Usual Secrecy. Accordingly, ever since Ceauşescu returned from China, the Soviets have been seeking an opportunity to get the Warsaw Pact countries together to censure him for his Asian indiscretions. Two weeks ago, the Soviet Ambassador to Bucharest handed Ceauşescu a letter from Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Foreign diplomats in Rumania believe that the letter advised Ceauşescu that a Communist summit was going to be held in the Crimea but they disagree over whether Ceausescu refused an invitation or was snubbed. But as one high-ranking Rumanian official...
...speed up the Berlin negotiations has become increasingly evident. An agreement would clear the last remaining hurdle for their cherished European Security Conference, aimed at nailing down the status quo in Eastern Europe and getting international recognition for East Germany. It would accelerate the opening of NATO-Warsaw Pact talks on troop reductions in Central Europe. Finally, it would prompt Brandt to seek Bundestag ratification of the nonaggression treaties of Moscow and Warsaw, which have been delayed pending a Berlin agreement. Whether such a settlement happens this week or later, the talks have certainly come a long way since...