Word: threats
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Although the Cuban crisis of 1962 proved to the U.S.S.R. the need for increased maritime capability, Stalin had earlier recognized this fact during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. He had been prevented from supporting the Loyalists by the threat of opposing naval forces. The major naval construction program he initiated withered after the German invasion of June 1941, but in July 1945 Stalin ordered the building of a mighty fleet to protect and support Soviet interests...
...Insisted a White House aide: "We've got the goods on them. We've got a file three inches thick." The Administration was exploiting the issue of Soviet and Cuban involvement in the Zaïrian crisis in order to make Carter look firm in dealing with the Soviet strategic threat (see WORLD...
While the two superpowers were exchanging salvos, the leaders of 15 NATO nations were in Washington to talk about rapidly growing Soviet military forces. To offset the threat to Western Europe, the NATO summit gave final approval to a 15-year program that will substantially increase the alliance's defenses. But despite their preoccupation with Europe, the NATO leaders wound up devoting much time to Soviet moves in Africa and President Carter's call for them to support the U.S. position. Said he: "Our alliance centers on Europe, but our vigilance cannot be limited to the Continent...
...facts of the Russian threat are now inescapable to everyone," says a strategist. "The President sees what the hell is going on. Up until recently he did not essentially believe what he was told by many concerned people." Carter's act of open-mindedness was truly courageous, by most measures, and led to a clearer picture of the need for more defense spending, ending the Turkish arms embargo, searching for better ways to help beleaguered friends. But then THE BETTMANN ARCHIVE Carter's political weakness surfaced. Talking tough was a way to rally American voters and foreign leaders...
...case Congress did not get that message, Premier Ecevit was even more blunt last week. Saying that he felt "no threat" from the Soviet Union, Ecevit announced that he would visit Moscow later this month to sign a friendship agreement. "It's an increasingly smaller world," he told TIME State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden. "It's natural there should be closer cooperation between countries of different alliances...