Word: sovietica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentrate on its tense, 4,000-mile frontier with China. He is also aware that the Soviets have not discarded their longtime goal of dislodging the U.S. from Europe, driving a wedge between Washington and its West European allies and supplanting the postwar Pax Americana with a Pax Sovietica. The Soviets have insistently called for a conference on European security that would include all European countries, the U.S. and Canada. Some Western experts suspect that Moscow's purpose is only to have the European status quo formally recognized and create the illusion of peace. That would increase pressure...
...increasingly worried that they no longer loom very large in American defense considerations. Sensing this attitude, the Soviets have resumed their old call for a European security conference designed to make Moscow the guarantor of peace in Europe and thus replace 25 years of Pax Americana with Pax Sovietica...