Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has been taking great pains to demonstrate its evenhandedness in dealing with Moscow and Peking. Example: as Teng went barnstorming through four U.S. cities, American and Soviet diplomats in Geneva continued negotiating what may be the final details...
...publicly declared that it would be "seriously concerned" over any Chinese attack on Viet Nam. Teng has warned that Hanoi should be "punished" for invading Cambodia and toppling the Pol Pot regime, which was backed by China. The Administration fears that any Chinese punishment could provoke retaliation from the Soviet Union, which last year signed a friendship treaty with Hanoi. Indeed, the U.S.S.R. has already begun assembling a naval task force of about a dozen warships off Viet Nam's coast...
...just that the magazine might give valuable information to opponents of the U.S. Most CIA operatives have probably already been pinpointed by the Soviet KGB and other spy agencies. But publicity makes it difficult for these or other CIA agents to maintain valuable contacts with businessmen, scholars, journalists and other sources. As serious is the possibility of the magazine's incorrectly identifying an agent. Said one senior CIA official: "Whether or not the people they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they...
...1960s, emergency supplies of food, toilet paper, medicines and sodium bicarbonate were stashed in more than 10,000 subterranean fallout shelter throughout New York City to support the survivors of nuclear combat with the Soviet Union. That was, of course, quite reassuring to the people of New York...
Just one day after China's Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ended his visit to the U.S., another Asian leader arrived at the White House last week to warn Jimmy Carter that an expansionist, Soviet-backed Viet Nam threatens peace and stability in Southeast Asia. The new visitor was Premier Kriangsak Chomanan of Thai land, whose country has good reason to feel beleaguered...