Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardening Line. In the Pueblo affair, despite a general willingness to give diplomacy a chance to work, pressure mounted swiftly for a retaliatory strike. The Navy, some said, wanted to bomb the Wonsan MIG base. South Korean Premier Chung II Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined...
Nothing Printable. North Korea has certainly done its best to keep its brethren in the South shivering. Late in 1966, Premier Kim II Sung launched a program of guerrilla subversion designed to disrupt the South and humiliate the U.S. at every turn...
Dramatic and dangerous as it was, the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo was only the latest and loudest thunderbolt from a long-gathering storm of North Korean belligerence. Under Premier Kim II Sung, a tough, Soviet-trained soldier, the North has become increasingly frustrated by its place in the Communist world and its poor showing visa-vis South Korea. Moved by the desire to bolster his regime internally and win some international notice and prestige -plus his oft-stated desire to distract the U.S. from its role in Viet Nam-Kim has deliberately launched his country on a high-risk...
...Greece is "a crowned liberal democracy." The King is "the symbol of national unity." He will have power to appoint and dismiss Premiers, but may select and fire other Cabinet ministers only with the Premier's consent. He is commander in chief of the armed forces and appoints the chiefs of staff and the internal-security chief on recommendation of the Supreme National Defense Council. He may pardon prisoners on recommendation of a newly created Judicial Council...
...Orient Express. While a raging blizzard shut down the airports of Eastern Europe, the three top men of Russia sped by train from Moscow across the white wastes to the Masu rian Lake district of Poland 600 miles away. There, in a hunting lodge, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny huddled with Polish Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka. Then it was all aboard again for a visit by the Russians to East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht before heading back home. The bland communiques issued at each stop hardly illuminated what pressing business could have made...