Word: warsaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewed his all-conquering troops on Polish soil (above). The unprovoked attack touched off history's most widespread and cataclysmic conflict. Before World War II ended nearly six years later, it had involved 60 countries and claimed more than 50 million lives. This week, as wailing sirens in Warsaw and ceremonies across Poland marked the 30th anniversary of the German invasion, the Poles reminded the world that the first victims had suffered the most severely of all. In the grip of an especially brutal German occupation, 6,000,000 Poles died-22% of the population. No fewer than...
...emphasized the contrast between American candor and Soviet secrecy concerning space flights. Czechoslovakia issued special commemorative stamps, and a Hungarian television commentator talked of "amazing tasks" during the moon walk. Poles unveiled a soaring statue at the Cracow sports stadium in honor of Apollo's astronauts. Said Radio Warsaw: "Let them come back happily. Their defeat would be the defeat of all mankind...
...long a light mist fell on Warsaw, forcing a cancellation of a flyover by Polish air force jet fighters. The bad weather did not, however, inhibit the inevitable big parade. Down the broad Marzalkowska Street rumbled row after row of Soviet-made T-54 and T-55 tanks, followed by self-propelled artillery and mobile missiles. Next came squads of young Polish athletes marching in tight formations that spelled the Roman numerals XXV. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Poland's Communist government...
...appropriate that the event was watched by ordinary citizens in Prague as well as Paris, Bucharest as well as Boston, Warsaw as well as Wapakoneta, Ohio. In practically every other corner of the earth, newspapers broke out what pressmen refer to as their "Second Coming" type to hail the lunar landing. Poets hymned the occasion. Wrote Archibald MacLeish...
Ceausescu, on his part, will ask for better U.S. trade conditions for Ruma nian goods and more private American investment. He will undoubtedly reiter ate his familiar argument that both NATO and the Warsaw Pact should be dismantled simultaneously as a major move toward breaking down the barriers between the East and West blocs. Discreetly, he may also sound out the President on what U.S. reaction might be if the Russians ever tried a Czechoslovak-style power play against Rumania...