Word: rapacki
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...postwar Soviet foreign policy. In March, 1947, Molotov suggested a reunified Germany, but the plan was overlooked by the U.S. The 1948 Berlin blockade was not a grasp for a city of 2 million people. Ulam suggests, but an attempt to reopen the question of a united Germany. The Rapacki Plan, which Russia forwarded and America rejected in 1957, proposed a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe. And according to Ulam's novel interpretation of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Russians sought not a redress of the balance of power--"one does not risk an immediate nuclear war just...
Died. Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. The Western powers rejected the idea for lack of adequate guarantees and on the grounds that a nuclear shield in West Germany was essential against the Soviet bloc's preponderance of conventional arms...