Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel. In those days, the Mediterranean was considered an American lake, and the Soviets had just begun to awaken to the potentialities of seapower. In the early '60s, the Soviets began to build up their navy all over the world (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Now the U.S. must reckon with the Soviet force in the Mediterranean-and so must the Israelis. When Soviet-made Styx missiles, fired from a torpedo boat by Egyptians, sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said in an incident in October 1967, the Israelis dared not retaliate directly for fear of hitting Soviet warships...
...Terre Haute, Indiana, I introduced myself to Wallace and asked him if he had time to talk to me. Wallace, who was standing in the aisle at the back of the plane after conferring with a CBS man, paused and then said, "I reckon...
...Emphasized Role. The U.S. moved last week to re-emphasize its role as the ultimate guarantor of peace and security in Europe. Whatever NATO's condition, the Soviets must also reckon that any invasion of Western Europe might bring down the full force of the U.S. nuclear deterrent on the Russian homeland-and World War III. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford visited West Germany and West Berlin to convey firm assurance of U.S. protection. A few days later, Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach flew to Belgrade for talks with Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, who is feeling...
...attract enough of it to form an electoral majority. To do it, he must capture the imaginations of many Democrats and independents who are largely reconciled to the Big Government he likes to berate and have been cool toward Nixon in the past. At the same time, he must reckon with the disinherited, principally Negroes, who in some states can hold the balance in a tight election...
...Washington headquarters, an army of arm-twisters and saturation-of-publicity media-not to mention his bill for the dozens of cuff links seized by avid admirers-Bobby in Indiana, Nebraska and California has rented trains at a total cost of $8,700. No one has even attempted to reckon the cost to Kennedy of supporting the 13 relatives who are campaigning for him in the field, but their daily phone calls home must cost-by anyone else's standards-a minor fortune...