Word: soviet-american
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...part, Bonn has been nettled by such touchy issues as the future of U.S. troop commitments in Western Europe, West Germany's attempts to formalize relations with Communist countries in the East, and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which many West Germans view uneasily as a Soviet-American scheme to relegate the Bundeswehr to the status of a perpetually second-class army and leave the country open to nuclear "blackmail...
Hollander said yesterday that he did not think this would promote better Soviet-American relations. "This is just my private feeling," he said, "but I think the only Soviet reaction is probably one of contempt...
...demonstrate its pique over the U.S. stand in Viet Nam, the Kremlin has put a damper lately on portions of the U.S.-Russian cultural-exchange program. The American Ballet Theater arrived in Moscow last June to an officially cool reception. After the bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil depots, the Russians stood the Americans up at a scheduled Soviet-American track meet in Los Angeles; when U.S. swimmers came to Moscow, Pravda reported the meet without mentioning them. Last month American Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fa-tha") Hines's sextet, on an official tour of Russia, found its bookings...
...acquired nuclear forces; many others -- including India, Indonesia -- are capable of building them. An attempt by either the United States or the Soviet Union to build an antiballistic missile system would renew competition in offensive as well as defensive missles. The result would be vertical proliferation of new weapons systems that would destabilize the present deterrent balance. By continuing its present policy of nuclear sharing, the U.S. thus risks destroying the entente and triggering a new Soviet-American nuclear race...
...bombing North Viet Nam and "reassuring the Soviet Union that it was right in its original analysis, the U.S. is contributing to the maintenance of the Soviet-American détente and preventing the Soviet regime from emulating the Chinese. It can even be argued that the present American offensive action against North Viet Nam constitutes a form of preliminary negotiation...