Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Vietnamese did not reject Johnson's message out of hand. Instead, Politburo Member Le Due Tho, officially described as an "adviser" at the peace talks but actually Hanoi's principal overseer, hurried home via Moscow, where he conferred with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. Once he reached Hanoi, he found himself embroiled in a bitter debate between North Viet Nam's pro-Chinese and pro-Soviet factions. One or more messages were apparently sent seeking more information. The Administration noted simply that no "breakthrough" response had come from Hanoi. Some U.S. officials feared that the North Vietnamese...
...life-or-death question of how the U.S. would come out in a thermonuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union has a nagging habit of cropping up shortly before Election Day. In 1960, the Democrats' misleading charges of a "missile gap" served to confuse and alarm voters. This year it was Richard Nixon who sought a last-minute advantage. "The present state of our defenses is too close to peril point," Nixon charged in a radio speech, "and our future prospects are in some respects downright alarming. We have a gravely serious security...
...Humphrey-Muskie Administration would never be indifferent to the fate of Czechoslovakia. We must act now to restrain future incidents by making it clear to the Soviet Union that future invasions of independent countries will have an adverse and chilling effect on ending the cold war. It is to the advantage of the Soviet Union as well as to our advantage to reduce tensions and military budgets. This, we must emphasize, can never be more than a hope if Russia insists on doctrinaire subservience--at gunpoint--from its client states...
...police by night in the Latin Quarter. As the pro-De Gaulle newspaper Paris-Presse observed, "M. Shriver started from scratch at a time when France was making a clean sweep of the past." The assassination of Robert Kennedy evoked French sympathy for his sister Eunice Shriver. Finally, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia abruptly ended De Gaulle's cultivation of diplomatic openings to the East. France is looking elsewhere for friends, Charles de Gaulle seems to have rediscovered the U.S., and Shriver has benefited as well as shrewdly exploited the warmer climate...
...always, Soviet officials were cautious and cryptic when they reported the results of the maneuver. The two ships, they said, had closed to within 650 feet of each other under "automatic control." Then Beregovoy took over and flew even closer. Whether he actually completed docking was not made clear...