Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese invasion of Viet Nam and the Soviet warnings of armed retaliation against China produced a new convulsion in a world already alarmed by the turmoil in the Middle East and Africa (see WORLD). While the fighting did not immediately involve U.S. interests-indeed the U.S. could take some ironic satisfaction from this conflict among the Communist powers, and in Viet Nam of all places-the prospect of a wider war was deeply disturbing. If the Soviets became involved, would the fighting spread beyond Viet Nam? And was there any way for the U.S. to contain it? "We will...
...exodus. Sure of its case, the U.S. did respond more firmly than it had earlier to the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs. It slashed aid to Afghanistan from $15 million to $3 million, sparing only humanitarian projects, and it angrily rejected Moscow's claim that Soviet advisers were not involved in the killing. But here, too, Carter conveyed an impression -however unfair that impression might be-of helplessness...
...gives the bombs-away order and then seals himself off, refusing to release the recall code. Meanwhile, the Russians have cooked up a Doomsday Machine to destroy the world in case someone drops an atomic bomb in their territory. It was going to be announced later that week, the Soviet Ambassador explains,..."The Premier loves surprises...
...complaining that SALT II fails to limit Moscow's Eurostrategic forces," intermediate-range missiles which threaten Western Europe. We should guarantee that we possess sufficient cruise missile capability to defend Europe against aggression. Moreover, we should also point out that SALT II will lessen the chances of a U.S.-Soviet nuclear exchange, which inevitably would drag in Western Europe...
...comparison of Iran and China is whether we can learn from experience. One can assume that the American approaches to China and to Iran will be a good deal more similar than the conditions in those two very different countries. For example, both countries figure in our grand anti-Soviet strategy, just as both figure in the expansion of American business and technological activity abroad. We may assume that socialist China is less corrupt than Iran was under the Shah. But contracts for billion-dollar installations in foreign lands easily lend themselves to some degree of corruption or private self...