Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bellicose lady" and scoffed that "she tried on Winston Churchill's trousers but they don't fit." Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone," the Soviet news agency TASS warned that Bonn's inclination to go along with the NATO plan was in "clear conflict with the officially declared objectives of the German Federal Republic's foreign policy...
...harshest invectives, however, were leveled against the U.S., which was accused of endangering detente by placing new weapons not covered by SALT II on the doorstep of the Soviet Union. Fumed Central Committee Official Valentin Falin: "How would the U.S. have reacted if we, the Soviet Union, after concluding SALT II, started bringing medium-range weapons closer to their territory?" To drive home the argument, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reported, other officials privately drew a parallel with Cuba in 1962. One Moscow editor told him: "There was a crisis when you thought missiles in Cuba could...
...being careful not to respond with a hard-sell counteroffensive of its own. Rather, at the December NATO meeting the allies also plan to introduce an arms-control proposal of their own for limiting medium-range weapons. The judgment of the State Department is to watch the strident Soviet campaign, at least for the time being. Whatever the problems the NATO allies may have with their divided or left-leaning parliaments, the prevailing West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted pretty staunchly...
...Soviet as well as American aerial reconnaissance photos revealed what looked suspiciously like an atomic test site in the Kalahari Desert, a wasteland that covers nearly one-fourth of the country...
...Americans might ask the Russians, the Chinese and even themselves.'' At week's end, South Africa announced that it was investigating the possibility that the mysterious flash had been caused by an accident on a Soviet nuclear submarine...