Word: soviet-american
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...Russian exchange student granted asylum in the United States in January departed for the Soviet Union yesterday, having decided to return even before the end of his official stay at Harvard as a member of the Soviet-American cultural exchange program...
...participant in the Soviet-American cultural exchange program, 35-year-old Asseyev had been studying in the Soc Rel Department at Harvard since September. He was concentrating on logical positivism and the Western sociology of knowledge under a flexible academic arrangement...
...think the Russian citizens liked Kennedy much as their parents had liked Roosevelt: He was a President who wanted better Soviet-American relations and whose administration semed to promise peace and better times. They especially appreciated the test-ban. And young people particularly felt Kennedy's glamor and charm quite independent of his political role. "I know how most Americans must feel about this," one Russian boy told me, "but I think that people here were sadder than people in some states...
...Tory difficulties that are more than skin deep. After an impressive electoral mandate in 1959, Macmillan's government immediately began to stumble. His policy of independence for British possessions in Africa alienated rightist members of his party. Then the U-2 debacle obliterated his hopes for a British inspired Soviet-American detente, and the election of John F. Kennedy encouraged the press to portray him as the walrus-like vestige of a less-enlightened age. Finally, within the last year, the Tories have been embarrassed by the Skybolt fudge and DeGaulle's rebuff of England's application for entrance into...
Many Republicans have raised political objections to the sale. Senator Goldwater accuses the President of establishing a "Soviet-American mutual aid society," and former vice-President Nixon claims we are "hurting the cause of freedom." Instead, the President's decision will strengthen recent attempts to case world tension. The Russians need grain and the United States has too much; common ground has been found and the opportunity for a further Cold War thaw should not be bypassed...