Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hacked away intransigently at the NATO alliance. Now, on the other side of the eroding Iron Curtain, the Russians were getting a taste of the same galling medicine. Out of many Eastern European capitals last week came reports of a Rumanian round-robin message to the nations of the Warsaw Pact...
...troops were no longer needed in Eastern Europe, since the threat of U.S. aggression had faded. It proposed that any nation desiring Russian troops on its soil should conclude bilateral treaties with Moscow to keep them. The message also suggested that Moscow should gain the unanimous approval of all Warsaw Pact nations before it ever uses its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. And, asked the Rumanians, why should not the command of the Warsaw Pact military alliance be rotated among member nationalities, rather than remaining solely in Russian hands...
Still, Ceausescu has something to gain merely by causing tremors in the Iron Curtain. At the Soviet 23rd Party Congress last March, Brezhnev called for a "strengthening" of the Communist alliance, and later hinted at a Warsaw Pact meeting to be held, of all places, in Bucharest. Such a meeting would dangerously strengthen Russian restraint on Rumania's independence of action. By circulating the anti-alliance note, Ceausescu might well have torpedoed the meeting, and at the same time won greater maneuvering room for his own nation...
...Members: Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Russia. Albania is still a nominal member, though since 1960 it has sided with Red China and no longer attends Warsaw Pact meetings...
...World War II. But it tied in neatly with Ceausescu's emphasis on "the nation as a form of human community." With Gaullist gall, Ceausescu also struck out against "military blocs" as "incompatible with the national independence and sovereignty of peoples." Was he suggesting a walkout from the Warsaw Pact...