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...security risk," adding that Christine might well have tried to "blackmail him or bring pressure on him to disclose secret information." Indeed, suggests Denning, Ivanov may have been under express orders from the Soviet government to blow up a scandal involving Profumo, in the hope that it would weaken U.S. trust in the government-and "he succeeded only too well...
...brave talk. But the real test of France's influence is that its neighbors are vehemently opposed to the force de dissuasion and resent French attempts to weaken the Atlantic Alliance. Be fore the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week, Michel Habib-Deloncle, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, urged support for an independent European deterrent, based on France's nuclear force, and even invited British participation. Said he: "If Great Britain conceives its future to be in the European Community, she can find in this field the occasion for a positive contribution...
...Soviet Union. They are growing less dependent on Moscow, more assertive. And if relations between the West and the Soviets improve, the satellite countries are going to be able to broaden their contacts with the West and the U.S. These contacts will open them up to new impressions that weaken their blind faith in their system. Then we have the possibility of ever more effective relations. After all, our influence must operate through some kind of interchange...
...Washington talks any more about "rolling back" Communism in Eastern Europe. Now the hope is to "loosen it up." The U.S. expects the test ban treaty, and whatever cold war relaxation that may follow, to help weaken the satellites' dependence on Moscow and to turn them increasingly toward the West. The Eastern European countries are of course still solidly Communist, and their leaders keep warning that "peaceful coexistence" does not apply to the war with Western ideology. The loudest warnings are from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who rules by repressive methods that Khrushchev himself has abandoned...
Point of Definition. Catavi, the country's largest single tin-mine complex, seemed a good place to start. It accounted for 30% of Comibol's operating losses, and half of its 7,000 employees were superfluous. "Be firm, don't weaken," Paz Estenssoro said to Comibol's President Guillermo Bedregal...