Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNE 1957-Russia agrees in principle to on-site inspections to guard against underground tests, but refuses to specify a number...
...sessions, it almost seemed that easy. Khrushchev said that, since it had been impossible to reach agreement on a full ban in the past, the time had come to achieve more by attempting less. He gave Soviet approval to a limited ban which would cover all tests except those underground, repeating his familiar opposition to onsite inspections of possible underground blasts. As usual, Gromyko argued that such inspections were unnecessary anyway, in view of long-range seismic detection devices. When the sudden crash of an accidentally overturned chair startled the delegates, Gromyko said quickly: "This is confirmation that everyone detects...
...TEST BAN: Khrushchev has indicated that he would revive Russia's 1961 terms for a test ban, which included a voluntary moratorium on underground detonations, without effective controls. This proposal was rejected by the U.S. at the time. Then, last year, Russia offered to permit three inspections of its territory yearly by way of policing an underground ban. Moscow subsequently reneged, Khrushchev now insists that Russia will never "open its door to NATO spies," and that "this is no subject for bargaining." The West will not accept an unenforceable moratorium on underground tests, since it believes that the Russians...
Refugees from behind the Iron Curtain have come into West Berlin over rooftops and underground, by foot, auto, train, bus, boat and armored car. Last week West Berlin welcomed the first to arrive by plane-Polish Air Force Major Richard Obacz, 34, his German-born wife Mary, 27, and their two small sons...
...generation that freed Ireland and has ruled it ever since. At school, he learned his four Rs-in the Dublin of 50 years ago, revolution was part of the curriculum-and by the age of 14 had joined the Republican Na Fianna Eireann, a sort of Boy Scout underground. Two years later, when the Irish Republican Army occupied the Dublin post office at the start of the botched 1916 Easter Week rising, Sean was the youngest rebel of them all, spent four days on the roof with a rifle, waiting for the British to mount an old-fashioned infantry charge...