Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thaw? Diplomats ride roughshod over Bonn's traffic laws. The city's narrow, choked streets-many dating from medieval times-allow little room for maneuvering, but cars with "O" plates (indicating the diplomatic corps) swing arrogantly into "no parking" zones and further complicate the traffic problem. Police rarely ticket diplomatic drivers, knowing that they will use their immunity to avoid answering the summons. When a British correspondent had the bumper ripped off his car by a speeding Ivory Coast diplomat passing on the wrong side, the police waved on the African at the flash of his passport...
...moon. Why, after two years of rush-rush activity, the change in tune? Was the U.S. manned-moon project proving so unexpectedly difficult that Kennedy wanted help from the Russians in meeting its soaring costs? Or was Kennedy's offer part of a general cold war thaw...
Promising as the pact was, there were questions about what other "sprouts" the nuclear test thaw might produce. To get an idea of what the Soviets had in mind, Dean Rusk stayed in Russia for four days after the treaty was signed, met several times with Gromyko. The Secretary of State wound up the week with a shirt-sleeve conference and a badminton game with Khrushchev (in which the roly-poly Russian easily bested the man from the New Frontier) at the Premier's vacation villa on the Black Sea. There appeared to be two areas in which Russia...
...there is a thaw in the cold war, the fact is not evident along the Wall...
...Dangers. The treaty, said the President, "will not resolve all conflicts, or cause the Communists to forgo their ambitions, or eliminate the dangers of war." Even if the test ban agreement led to a lasting thaw, it would "bring new problems, new challenges from the Communists, new dangers of relaxing our vigilance or of mistaking their intent...