Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamaraish. Now, at the top of all this, stands Premier Aleksei Kosygin, a trained economist, widely and well-traveled in Western economies...
...Flowers? Western experts differ widely on how far Russian economic reform can go, and what it means. "I think this is a permanent reform," says Pennsylvania's Herbert Levine, "except for a major outside political event. I don't expect that there will be an easy retrenchment to a central economy." But Stanford's Roger Freeman insists that it is "only a period-like China's 100-flowers period. It may appear to open up the Soviet Union, but eventually it must...
...Group." As the plane winged off toward Cairo, Western diplomats in the tiny African mountain kingdom breathed a sigh of relief. So did Burundi's ruler, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, 53, who four days earlier had ordered the Chinese Communists to leave. The Mwami had ample reason to be angry. No sooner had Peking established a mission in Bujumbura, in January 1964, than Chinese money began to flow into the pockets of Burundi ministers and politicians. The Reds quickly allied themselves with discontented Watutsi refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were...
...Situation. Khrushchev's fall last October was the beginning of the end for Lysenko. The Soviet press blossomed with articles against him; it published columns of praise for his enemies and critics. Soviet genetic laboratories openly dared to use Western ideas and methods. Lysenko's departure last week was marked by a speech by Mathematician Mstislav V. Keldysh, president of the august Academy of Sciences. Said Keldysh: "The exclusive position held by Academician Lysenko must not continue. His theories must be submitted to free discussion and normal verification...
Widening Sales. Last year, quite aside from U.S. military aid, foreign nations paid $1.1 billion in cash for U.S. military hardware, about 40% of what the U.S. spent overseas in defense of the Western world. Now the Pentagon is widening its sales push to some 60 nations whose economies are strong enough so that they can help finance their own security. This year the program is expected to bring a 25% increase in orders for everything from missiles to navigation gear...