Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...focused on Geneva. Scheduled to begin behind locked doors in Geneva this week was an East-West conference on technical aspects of reducing the threat of surprise attack. At another Geneva conference, U.S., British and Russian delegates were already in their second week of talks on nuclear-test suspension, though progress was stalled by the clash between Soviet insistence on stopping tests right away and "forever" and U.S.-British insistence that a foul-proof inspection system must precede any long-term agreement to halt tests. To help the conference's slender chances of success, the U.S. and Britain...
Rock & Rule. The U.S., committed to helping preserve the independence of Middle East countries that ask its help, had shored up Lebanon and is now underwriting Jordan. This week the test of whether Arab nations can keep their independence-even such an impoverished sand kingdom as Jordan-is being put to the test. Less than three weeks after British troops left, the confident young King Hussein planned to take off for a three-week "convalescent leave" and vacation in Europe. The question was whether his nation would stay quiet in his absence, under tight police control inside and the counterbalancing...
...Test Stoppage Committee...
...West can remain united in its insistence on an inspection system, however, it can afford to compromise on its other demands, and accept a test ban for a five or ten year period. The prospect that Russia would agree to the compromise, while not particularly good, cannot be ruled out. After all, it was the Soviet Union which proposed at last year's meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that nuclear tests be stopped for two or three years...
With each side either testing nuclear weapons, or threatening to test them, a conference on disarmament borders on the ridiculous. Neither side is willing to forego the last word, or more important, the last test. In order to achieve constructive results, diplomats on both sides will have to make every possible attempt to remove the political and propaganda considerations from the negotiations...