Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party's longtime leader, Maurice Thorez, sometimes known in party circles as "the Hag" because of her terrible temper. At the same time, the party, which is led by Secretary General Waldeck Rochet, who in recent years has become a moderate, both reaffirmed its censure of Soviet action in Czechoslovakia and asserted its new-found critical attitude toward Mos cow. Wrote L'Humanite, the French Communist newspaper: "No party is perfect and no party can avoid making mistakes in method and analysis...
Readiness. Meanwhile, political and military developments in Europe have given the colonels considerable leverage over the U.S. The growing Soviet naval presence in the Mediterranean convinced Pentagon planners of the need for a strengthening of NATO's eastward flank. Even more important, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the continuing threat to Yugoslavia were a clear indication that Greece's armed forces should be brought up to a high state of readiness. Consequently, the U.S. State Department wrestled down its objection to the junta and agreed to renewed shipments of heavy arms. The first consignment will consist...
...decision dismayed critics of the junta, both in the U.S. and abroad. As the Washington Post put it: "In the name of defending the free world, Washington props up a government that withholds freedom from its own people." Given the Soviet Union's aggressive new stance, the Administration could argue that it had little choice, but a defensible choice is not necessarily a desirable...
...each case, there were personal explanations for the death, but security officials did not rule out other motives, even though only Ludke, Wendland and Grimm had had access to classified information. One line of speculation suggested that extensive security checks launched in sensitive departments after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia might have frightened enemy agents into suicide. Bonn admitted last week that toward the beginning of October, after one East German agent had been arrested, six others fled West Germany. But it did not tie them to the admiral. By week's end the Ludke case remained open...
...similar respect for the English weekend by the British authorities enabled Spy Donald Maclean to escape to the Soviet Union...