Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political art in foreign affairs is to reduce the number of enemies of one's country and to turn yesterday's enemies into good neighbors."-Molotov, Aug. 31, 1939, explaining the Soviet-German Pact...
...coast. Was he deliberately overlooked by the Kremlin, or did he refuse to attend what was in reality a Communist summit conference? The question was asked with some nervousness in Eastern Europe last week; in August 1968 the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia was preceded by two Warsaw Pact summit meetings from which the leaders of Prague's "Springtime of Freedom" had been excluded...
Sorry States. While there is abundant evidence of Soviet pressure, there is no immediate sign that Moscow is planning an invasion. Moreover, while the Czechoslovaks declared in advance that they would not resist a Warsaw Pact invasion, the Yugoslavs have made it clear that they would fight. They have scheduled autumn maneuvers of their own in the rugged mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The war games, the biggest since 1945, will stress cooperation between newly organized guerrilla bands and the regular army. The Yugoslavs are especially anxious about the possibility of a new outbreak of fighting in the Middle East. They...
FORCE REDUCTIONS. On a mission to Moscow, Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro formally advised the Soviet government that NATO wants to begin talks with the Warsaw Pact about force reductions in Europe. Perhaps as an indication of Soviet interest, Moro was received both by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. But then it was only logical for them to hear out the NATO emissary, since it was Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev who last May invited the Atlantic Alliance to taste the wine of Russian intentions about troop cuts...
...NATO's fifth Secretary-General,*Luns takes over at a crucial time, when the alliance is beginning to explore troop reductions with the Warsaw Pact nations. Luns' own predilection is for caution. He does not want NATO to become so mesmerized by hopes of detente that it will lose sight of its primary role as the defender of Western Europe...