Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ringing Phone. From the other side, the rumbles were not peacelike. Sounding more bellicose than ever, Peking continued attacking the U.S. bombing, stopping just short of promising to send troops to Viet Nam. The Warsaw Pact countries rubber-stamped a resolution condemning the latest U.S. actions as "a new and more dangerous step in the American policy of escalation" and pledging continued aid to North Viet Nam. While obviously suffering under the new American blows (see THE WORLD), Hanoi in its public statements displayed no hint of any less determination than Washington. Ho Chi Minh recently told a visiting Canadian...
...Gaulle clearly would like to see such a first step toward the dissolution of that obstacle to a European settlement, and the U.S. has indicated that it would consider a quid pro quo pullback of its own. The matter may very well be on the agenda of the Warsaw Pact powers when they meet this week in the Rumanian capital of Bucharest. If so, the seeds of cold war disengagement that Charles de Gaulle planted along his triumphal 6,200-mile march through Russia may come to flower sooner than expected. But even if not, the De Gaulle visit will...
...small village of Nowy Dvor, some 20 miles from Warsaw, shirt-sleeved farmers chatted in the main square before the church, glancing toward the grey militia cars parked near by. In the dusty churchyard, women knelt to pray while children in white Communion dresses skipped about. Inside the small, battered church, Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski told an overflowing congregation that the replica of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, scheduled to arrive that day in Nowy Dvor as part of a summer-long processional to celebrate the millennium of Poland's conversion to Christianity would not come. "The authorities intercepted...
Local people are embarrassed by it. The party suffers. But what can you do?" Last week in Warsaw, following an emotional sermon from the cardinal ("We beg the authorities to stop fearing us and start loving us"), some 1,000 angry student demonstrators marched on party headquarters, defiantly shouting church slogans and singing the national anthem. They were scattered by police armed with tear gas and rubber truncheons. But it seemed unlikely that Wladyslaw Gomulka had heard the last of the protest...
Russia obviously has much to gain by restructuring the Warsaw Pact. Pressure is on from Moscow's allies-principally Rumania-to cut back on defense costs and remove Russian troops from East Germany, Hungary and Poland. After all, they have a way of discouraging nationalism. Nearly half of the Soviet ground force is currently stationed west of the Urals-where much less than half the danger to Russia now originates. The only hot war in the world is in the Far East, and Red China is still hungry for the Mongolian territory Russia claims...