Word: summits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suitcases, and prepared to be fellow travelers with a single destination: Moscow. The capital's hotels, including the new 3,000-room Rossia, just off Red Square, braced for the greatest onslaught of comradely dignitaries in nearly a decade. Barring a last-minute snag, the oft-postponed world summit meeting of Communist parties will convene this week in the Soviet capital, the first such international gathering of top party brass since...
After so many costly failures to gain Ap Bia's summit, some U.S. soldiers were dispirited. "There were lots of people in Bravo company [which had borne the brunt of the casualties] who were going to refuse to go up again," one soldier said. "There'd been low morale, but never before so low-because we felt it was all so senseless." Two other battalions from the 101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition...
...impermanent-understanding. Lebanon will release arrested rioters and drop charges against them in return for a fedayeen promise not to bring on Israeli retaliation, either by firing across the border or by launching large-scale raids from Lebanese territory. Lebanon has appealed also to its Moslem neighbors for a summit meeting of the Arab League, now a distinct possibility, since other Arab governments are as aware as the Lebanese of the growing political threat of the fedayeen...
...privilege of traveling abroad and emigrating. Artistic and political expression bloomed, and the country pulsed with hope and excitement. But Czechoslovakia's new ebullience frightened the Soviet and other East Bloc leaders, who feared that their own people would demand similar reforms. At a Warsaw Pact summit meeting in Dresden in March 1968, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht reportedly waved his arms ominously over the other Party leaders, warning: "We will all soon be in danger, if not swept out of office." Soviet tanks, of course, averted that eventuality and ended Dubček's stirring, if perhaps...
...Berlin. To resolve the issue, Eisenhower initiated a venture in personal diplomacy. Khrushchev came to the U.S., and during talks in the President's Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, agreed to lift his ultimatum. The "spirit of Camp David" was short-lived. Just before another summit conference in Paris in 1960, Khrushchev announced that the Russians had shot down an American U-2 spy plane. Not only was the conference canceled; Ike's planned trip to Russia was vetoed as well, a personal humiliation. The uncertain performance of his Administration, which clumsily lied and backtracked before Eisenhower...