Word: western
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismantled and removed from Cuba under the supervision of U.N. on-site observers. In what seemed to be a thinly veiled ultimatum to the Soviets, Kennedy added: "It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response on the Soviet Union." The next day, the Organization of American States gave its unanimous backing to the U.S. position. To many, the world appeared on the brink...
...Kennedy and Nixon understandings with the Soviet Union did not resolve a more general problem. Many Americans, believing devoutly in the Monroe Doctrine's repudiation of non-American military bases in the Western Hemisphere, have never accepted the idea of the Soviet Union having any military role in Cuba whatsoever. But the Monroe Doctrine's applicability today is essentially symbolic...
...loudest cry of alarm came from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Brussels, where he chaired a three-day conference of 100 Western political and military experts that was sponsored by Georgetown University on the theme "NATO: The Next 30 Years." In an extemporaneous speech remarkable for its passion, Kissinger warned that the U.S. nuclear umbrella over Europe is fast losing credibility in face of the Soviets' military buildup in general and their nuclear versatility in particular. The Soviet Union's improving and multifaceted nuclear capacity, he said, not only is making it increasingly difficult...
...argued that the strength of the Warsaw Pact's conventional forces, compared with NATO'S, is continuing to expand, and that there is a "growing disparity" between the Soviet deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons not covered by the proposed SALT II treaty and the laggard Western development of comparable arms. The White Paper declared further that the Warsaw Pact armies appear to be geared primarily for attack rather than defense...
...reading list likewise runs from Thomas Mann's short stories to Remarque's familiar All Quiet on the Western Front. But this won't be a frolic through translated works: The texts are all read in German, although Tatar will conduct class discussions in English...