Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarming buildup of U.S.S.R. military force in the Mideast reflects U.S. ineptitude as much as Russian strength. Given our NATO treaty arrangements with Turkey and that nation's stranglehold on Soviet entry to the Mediterranean, it is hard to believe that imaginative U.S. policymakers could not take counteractions (e.g., an American "presence" in the Black Sea) that would give the Russian Bear a severe case of twisted tail...
...that the U.S. faces a "security gap" and must not permit the Soviets to achieve anything approaching nuclear parity. In the Brookings report, Carl Kaysen, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, sharply challenges that view, underscoring "the futility of a quest for security" through increasing military strength. Kaysen argues that the theory of "deterrence-plus" -the maintenance of sufficient strength to absorb a Soviet first strike and still be able to devastate the attackers, with a margin of safety added-is passe. A secure second-strike capacity, he insists, is all the U.S. can realistically seek...
Klein will need to summon all his strength as a newsman and as an editor to make his new job work. For his protestations of probity last week will undoubtedly be replayed to him the moment the new Administration gets caught in even the most trivial shading, inflation or seeming suppression of the facts...
...monetary crisis abated last week, European statesmen were pleasantly surprised at the relative mildness of its immediate economic after effects. Thanks mainly to France's severe austerity program, the franc regained some of its strength, and the free world's finely balanced monetary system was spared, at least for the moment, a major upheaval (see BUSINESS). But the political consequences of the crisis continued to reverberate in half a dozen capitals, The West Germans had defended the Deutsche Mark against the combined efforts of France, Britain and the U.S. to bring about the mark's upward revaluation...
Though Ahlers doubtless talked too much, average Germans and the German press could hardly be blamed for displaying a bit of self-satisfied pride in the strength of their currency. But as soon as the leaders of Bonn's Grand Coalition sensed how poorly the German gloating was being received elsewhere in Europe, they moved without hesitation to curb the enthusiasm of their countrymen. In a radio interview, Willy Brandt gave the Germans a lesson in prudent international etiquette. Said the Foreign Minister: "Arrogance toward our neighbors and partners would be stupid and dangerous." Chancellor Kiesinger warned his people...