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...OPEN SKIES," 1955. At the Geneva summit conference, President Eisenhower suggested a bold plan for aerial surveillance of all military installations, including nuclear facilities. The idea had not been favored by most U.S. military men, and the Russians rejected it as an espionage ploy. The Russians countered with a ground checkup system -which Eisenhower accepted in principle-but the idea fell through when Moscow would allow only three token look-sees a year. Today there is still no formal inspection procedure, although satellite surveillance and seismic detection devices have made it easier to keep track of nuclear installations and large...
...cool ploy, Brandt openly mused whether the East German moves were indeed serving the best interests of the Soviet Union. He explained that Ulbricht's aggressive actions only encouraged the rise of right-wing extremism in West Germany and strengthened the obduracy of conservative elements that oppose West German ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which Russia and the U.S. jointly sponsor...
...plainly too diminutive to meet the Navy's minimum height requirement (5 ft. 6 in.). So Victor Krulak persuaded a buddy to hit him on the head in hopes of raising a bump big enough to narrow the stature gap. That ploy failed, so-bloody but unbowed-Krulak petitioned and won the right to join the U.S. Marines as the shortest man in the corps. His Annapolis instructors also rated him low-among the bottom 10% of the class of '34 in military aptitude...
...statement a valid X ray of the body politic in 1968? Or merely a vote-getting ploy? Are these disparate elements capable of ballot-box cohesion? It would seem unlikely. Nixon himself concedes only "differences of emphasis, not of fundamentals; differences in the speed of change, not so much in the direction of change." Yet the pace of progress is itself a key issue. Black militants-and black moderates, for that matter-have been increasingly dissatisfied with gradualism. It was the demand for "Freedom now.'" that motivated black militance in the first place, while many of the whites Nixon...
That was no exaggeration. For one thing, it is unclear whether Hanoi regards the forthcoming meeting as a propaganda ploy, a purely procedural preliminary to wider talks?or something more. In the past, the North Vietnamese have insisted that this round of parleys be held to resolve one issue and one issue only: whether the U.S. intends to call a complete, unconditional halt to its bombing of the North. Only after Washington agrees to do so, Hanoi has persistently maintained, will it then go on to formal negotiations with a full agenda. But in its note to Washington last week...