Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case TIME'S Essay presents for a change in U.S. foreign policy as regards China [June 6] is a sound and moderately argued one-perhaps over-moderately. For example, when you pointed out that China "has been involved less dramatically outside its borders than the Soviet Union," you might have added "and than the U.S.," which currently deploys a million and a half of its armed forces in bases scattered around the world, while China's troops are all at home where they (and, for the most part, we) belong...
...ARMS CONTROL. A bipartisan group of 56 Senators and Representatives urged the President to halt tests of missiles equipped with MIRVs, or Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been testing multiple warheads, though the Russians are thought to be considerably behind. The critics argue that if the tests continue, arms-limitation negotiations will fail. The mutual threat of multiple warheads, they insist, will only com mit both sides irrevocably to anti-ballistic missile programs and to another round in the arms race...
...Russians still spend billions of dollars annually in furthering the Communist cause abroad. The bulk of the money goes for arms for North Viet Nam and oil for Cuba, which are items that advance Soviet diplomatic aims. The U.S.S.R. until recently supplied one-fifth of the Italian party's $10 million budget, helps the Indians financially, subsidizes the illegal party of West Germany and supports the Latin American parties. Danish Communist leaders get three free suits a year made in East Germany, and some parties get a rake-off on whatever trade or tourism their countries do with the Soviet...
Russian dissenters directed a courageous plea last week to the Moscow summit delegates. It was a petition seeking help in arresting the restalinization of the Soviet Union and restoring civil rights. Among the ten signers was former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, arrested last month for anti-Soviet activities; Grigorenko's name was signed by his wife. Other signers included Pyotr Yakir, who has spent 17 years in a concentration camp, and whose father, a general, was executed during Stalin's purges of the Red army, and Leonid Petrovsky, whose grandfather was once chairman of the region...
...growing influence of the people who are attempting to restore the Stalinist past is becoming more and more evident. Once again, the old Stalinist cadres are setting the tone for the government and the party apparatus. In what other light can one evaluate the entry of Soviet troops into friendly Czechoslovakia...