Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the decision lay the fact that the U.S.-British-Soviet conference in Geneva, aimed at reaching a test-ban agreement with adequate safeguards against cheating, had just recessed its bogged-down negotiations until Oct. 12 to await the outcome of face-to-face talks between the President and Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Ike agreed with the State Department that the span between Oct. 12, when the Geneva conference starts up again, and Oct. 31, when the U.S. test-suspension period was supposed to end, would not give the conference enough time to make any progress no matter what...
Britain, told in advance of the U.S. decision, promptly said that it, too, was extending the test ban two months to Dec. 31. Following day the Soviet Union announced that it will not resume its own testing until somebody else does-which left it up to the U.S. either to risk the propaganda loss of starting first or to let the suspension rest as it is. without the safeguards, e.g., inspection, it deems necessary to an effective agreement...
...doubling of China's food crops in a single year," boasted Communist economists last October, "is one of the greatest victories of man over nature in history!" Soviet Russia might talk of outproducing the U.S., but Red China cockily promised to overtake Britain within a few years. Having herded 500 million people into the ant-heap life of "people's communes," Red China boasted that it had been able "completely to bury the so-called 'law of diminishing returns' which bourgeois economists claim to be universally true...
...mirage in the Kara Kum Desert. A Red flag flapped on the 203-foot-high summit of the Great Minaret, from which for centuries cruel khans and emirs had cast their enemies to their deaths. Over the main gate, in Russian and Uzbek, Maclean read the inscription: Town Soviet. Elsewhere he found decay and neglect. The miles of covered shops in Central Asia's most fabled bazaar had dwindled to a handful of grubby stalls, and only a few of the city's former 100 ornate mosques and 300 madrasahs (Moslem religious schools) were...
Ancient Battlegrounds. From the Caspian Sea to the border of China, Soviet Central Asia is a region as big as India, half as big as the U.S. Mountain ranges, deserts as bone-dry as the Sahara, and interminable wastes of grassy steppes make it one of the earth's most inhospitable areas. But from this Eurasian heartland came Aryans to populate the West, and across its pink sands marched generations of world conquerors. In 329 B.C. Alexander the Great sacked Samarkand ("Place of Sugars"), a city already centuries old. Rebuilt, Samarkand became one of the central depots...