Word: union
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, might increase international good will. "Nixon has a real chance, a great chance," he argues. "There is a balance of mediocrity in the world now. The world could move forward because that is so." One area in which Nixon has moved is in U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. With luck, and if the Pentagon's generals can find agreement with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's negotiators, there is some prospect of serious strategic-arms-limitation talks between the U.S. and the Soviets very soon...
...order to give workmen time to take down the American flags on the city's street lamps and replace them with substitute banners in honor of the guest delegations from 66 countries. The new decorations, however, could not paper over Rumania's deep disputes with the Soviet Union. As a result, the congress turned into an extraordinary confrontation between Rumania's policy of forming ties with the West and Moscow's rigid Brezhnev Doctrine that insists on obedience and conformity among the Soviet Union's East Bloc neighbors...
Strauss Waltzes. Even as the two men met, the three Allied powers that control West Berlin sent a note to the Soviet Union. It asked Moscow whether it would be interested in talks between West and East Germany about reducing tensions "in and around Berlin and between the two parts of Germany." The proposal was in reply to Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko's recent statement that Russia would welcome talks about "normalizing" the status of Berlin. The British, French and the Americans made the offer primarily to put the ball back in the Soviets' court, while not endangering...
...second week after defecting to the West, Soviet Author Anatoly Kuznetsov continued to detail his grim account of what it means to be a writer in the Soviet Union. "It is a frightful story," the novelist wrote in a copyrighted article in London's Sunday Telegraph. It is the story of a man haunted and hounded by Russia's massive secret security apparatus, the KGB. It is the painful record of an individual who, because he was expected to inform on friends, was forced into one moral crisis after another. Determined to escape, he finally resorted...
...microphones only with the approval of attorneys general). Another target: Interior Secretary Walter Hickel, whom they prematurely called "the right man for the wrong job." They questioned the appointment of Herbert Klein as President Nixon's Communications Director, claiming that when he was editor of the San Diego Union, that paper managed news to promote Republican candidates...