Word: rb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow prison, two Americans while away the hours of their lonely confinement. They read Dickens, Thackeray and the Bible; they write letters to their wives. It has been nearly five months since Air Force Lieutenants F. B. Olmstead and John McKone and four companions were shot down in their RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea. The two young officers were captured, brought to Moscow on loudly trumpeted but plainly trumped-up charges of espionage. The body of one fellow airman was returned to the U.S.; the others are listed as missing...
...usual mark of the neutral is to abstain on issues tied closely to the cold war. When the Soviet Union moved to debate the flights of the U-2 and RB-47, the U.S. won the balloting 54 to 10, but one third of the U.N. membership abstained, including countries generally considered pro-Western (Austria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia...
...Thompson announced that she was ready to accept all blame for the argument. But before tempers cooled, Nikita had spelled out one of his purposes in coming to the U.N.: to ask the General Assembly "to judge the U.S. as an aggressor" because of the U-2 and RB-47 flights...
...simply do not understand what your purpose is." It was not the kind of remark to provoke a humble confession of contrition from Khrushchev, and it didn't. Last week came his reply: a letter that blamed the West for the summit collapse, the Berlin stalemate, the RB-47 incident, the Congo crisis, the Cuban situation and a few other disturbances that crossed Nikita's mind...
...extend Communist imperialism." And when Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov flew in to ask the U.N.'s condemnation of "provocative . . . aggressive" flights of U.S. planes near the Soviet periphery, Lodge glanced up at the six visiting wives and widows of the crewmen of the downed RB-47E (TIME, July 25) and damned the Soviet show as "a pretty revolting piece of hypocrisy." Most important, Lodge called the Soviets on their threat to airlift Red troops into the chaotic Congo in defiance of U.N. attempts to bring about order (see FOREIGN NEWS). "With other United Nations members...