Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardened Opinion. Such concessions only served to expose how far apart the two sides remain on the core issues. The Israelis, for example, have no intention of giving up Jerusalem, while the Arabs insist on the return of "every inch" of occupied soil. In the year that Jarring has been trying to bridge such gaps, Israeli opinion has only hardened against any return to the prewar boundaries. At the same time, any Arab government that tried to sign a peace treaty now would have to answer to the increasingly powerful and hard-lining Palestinian commandos. Given continued Soviet lack...
...disagreement on the agenda, both sides had ample reason for wanting to hold it. In return for rolling back much of the liberalization of his early regime, Dubček is anxious for Russia to begin withdrawing most of the 275,000 Warsaw Pact troops still encamped on Czechoslovak soil. The Kremlin, on the other hand, is far from pleased with the pace of what the Russians call the "normalization" of Czechoslovak life. In particular, they resent the halfhearted censorship that permits most Czechoslovak news media to continue making subtle gibes at Soviet policy...
...move against the new Communist party will run the risk of unduly provoking the Soviets. At the same time, West German inaction toward the National Democrats will only provide the Soviets with another excuse to charge that "Nazism is again flourishing in full bloom on the political soil in Bonn," as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko did last week before the United Nations' General Assembly...
...their bilateral "friendship treaty," which President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceauşescu had resisted for nearly a year. Ceauşescu last week caved in, and the Soviets immediately came back at him with their other demand-that Rumania allow Warsaw Pact maneuvers to take place on its soil. It was, of course, the same ploy that the Soviets used on Dubcek prior to the invasion. Ceauşescu refused...
...develop Siberia and determined to fend off Red Chinese incursions, Russia is turning to Japan for capital and technical assistance. Dazzled by all the timber, iron ore, copper, manganese, oil and diamonds so close across the Sea of Japan, the Japanese now refer happily to Siberia as "virgin soil...