Word: warsaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When she came to the United States a little more than a year ago from Warsaw, the new transfer student had to suppress the instinct to always carry her I.D. in case she was stopped and had to overcome a fear of speaking on the telephone, she says. She still looked around to see if anyone was listening to her conversations whenever she ate out at restaurants...
After a year in Cambridge with her family--her father was a Nieman Fellow--she decided to apply as a transfer student from the University of Warsaw to Harvard. But the decision to apply wasn't made without some reluctance. Wroblewska wanted to go back to Poland...
Operation Fallen Patriot comes on the heels of project REPORGER--Return Forces to Germany. Under that operation, troops from NATO countries for the past three weeks pretended to fight WARSAW troops in Germany, Captain DeCesare, Chief of Plans and Training at Fort Devens, Mass, said yesterday...
...boys back home," and especially the conflict in Vietnam had already prompted Congressional debate on unilateral withdrawal. But few in the executive branches of the allied governments wanted this; it was believed that any substantial reduction in American troop strength would compromise Western conventional defenses, as well as sending Warsaw Pact nations a dangerous message about Western goals. Western leaders viewed the talks, essentially, as a means of co-opting the unilateralism...
...Even the initial estimates of force to be negotiated were in dispute. The West estimated Warsaw Pact and Russian combined troop strength at approximately 925,000. NATO's at 777,000. However, Russia claimed rough parity at the lower level. Ten years later, the two sides have come no closer to aggreement on the data, that presumably would be a prerequisite for any final treaty...