Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moved so affirmatively in so many directions. It made a conciliatory bow to Europe, as to an old friend whose acquaintance has been all too neglected of late. It spoke soothingly, but with extreme correctness, in the direction of the Russians, inviting them to begin a new chapter in Soviet-American relations. As for the U.S., the Administration displayed determination to heal old wounds while it contemplated new ventures...
...President's European consultations are part of a new stance toward the Soviet Union, an approach that is coming to be known in Washington as "total diplomacy." By building Western unity, President Nixon hopes to strengthen the U.S. position across the spectrum of common concerns with the U.S.S.R. In the President's now familiar words, he believes that this should be "an era of negotiation instead of confrontation." Unlike his predecessor, he also believes that negotiations should cover tough global political differences as well as the purely military matters that the Russians have been more eager to discuss...
Although Nixon describes this as part of "a new policy on the part of the U.S. in assuming the initiative," the main U.S. thrust continues to be toward agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a solution to the Arab-Israeli impasse. Nixon's men also intend to make bilateral probes of French and British attitudes through their delegations at the U.N. When the four-power talks eventually take place, the U.S. wants to make sure that it does not find itself on the short end of a three-to-one international line-up over the Middle...
...Sentinel system was promoted by former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara as a shield against a possible Chinese nuclear attack. Critics of the system have charged that the $5 billion project will provide an impetus for building a far more extensive "thick" ABM system to shield against a Soviet attack...
Precisely what conclusions the Soviet America watchers have reached is still classified information. From the advance indicators, however, they will cause few sleepless nights for party-liners. Arbatov, in his review of the Brookings report, rather grandly diagnosed many U.S. problems as "the natural outcome of the social system and the way of life prevailing in the country." As for Nixon, the institute's scientific director, Vladimir Filatov, last week safely predicted that "he will be true to his class...