Word: prospect
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Answer in Kind. Now, with the prospect of NATO missile bases in Britain and West Germany-and perhaps in Turkey, Italy and Norway as well-the Soviets could no longer threaten clear and present danger to Western Europe with short-range nuclear missiles without fear of retaliation in kind. Neither the U.S. nor Russia will be equipped with a long-range nuclear missile force-in-being for some years, and both sides know it. But the imminent arrival of U.S. nuclear missiles at British and other NATO bases represents a turn of the screw that tightens still further the ring...
Tolling Bells. In much of the world Macmillan's decision was greeted with hope and delight. "At least and at last, negotiations that can mean something are in prospect," declared London's News Chronicle. From Dublin, Irish Premier Eamon de Valera sent Makarios a history of Eire's fight for independence, accompanied by a note describing the book as a gift "from one who understands and sympathizes." In Cyprus itself church bells tolled triumphantly, spelling out "Makarios" in an old Greek ringing code, and as the news spread from balcony to balcony, crowds poured into the streets...
...charge of treasonable activity. His treason: an article in New York's Socialist New Leader calling the revolution in Hungary "the beginning of the end of Communism generally" (TIME, Dec. 24). Sentenced to three years' hard labor, Djilas, 46 and in good health, had every prospect of surviving his sentence, re-entering Yugoslav politics and even in time becoming one of the challengers for the mantle of the 64-year-old Tito. Since his arrest Djilas' following has grown. Yugoslav peasants, confronted with rising prices, have been heard saying: "Djilas was right." But last week...
...Democratic colleagues that Republicans in the old days never hesitated to cut Democratic budgets: "We did not dodge our responsibility. We cut the budget. And if you can, you should." Kansas Republican Errett Scrivner was more pointed: "Foreign aid, of course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids? Rural electrification and telephones? Increased pay for all federal workers? School lunches...
...oppose any sum until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Poland and free elections are held. From the other side of the aisle, Massachusetts' Democrat John F. Kennedy proclaimed that it would be a brutal and dangerous policy for the U.S. to turn down the Polish request. The prospect: either a comparatively modest (up to $40 million) sale of agricultural surpluses for zlotys-or, if the Administration asks for changes in the Battle Act (which bars outright aid to countries trading in war materials with Russia), a big battle in Congress...