Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles to attack the militant protestors while ignoring, as they have done for too long, the objects of the protests reveals a weird sense of priorites...
...Soviet soldiers in Czechoslovakia drastically unbalances what for two decades had been a relative parity between the opposing NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. Furthermore, the new Soviet presence along the Bavarian border of Czechoslovakia turns the flank on NATO's ground defenses, erected and maintained to meet an attack across the flat plains of East Germany...
...NATO planners, the new situation is fraught with uncertainties. They fear that a Soviet attack on Rumania might spark widespread uprisings in the East bloc that could spill over into a NATO area. The West Germans are most concerned of all. Though most people find it unthinkable that the Soviets would risk the start of World War III by attacking a NATO member, the West Germans nonetheless worry that the Soviet leaders might try to intimidate them with a further show of force that could, perhaps by accident, turn into an invasion. Reports of Soviet tactical nuclear missiles in Czechoslovakia...
...NATO rests not with the U.S. but with the West Europeans themselves. One of the familiar ironies of the nuclear standoff between the superpowers is that it has restored the importance of conventional warfare. While the West Europeans rightfully look to the U.S. for protection from nuclear attack, they can and should look to their own resources for the new manpower necessary to bring NATO's conventional forces back in balance with its potential Communist antagonists...
...attack came at noon, in the form of three gelignite time bombs wrapped in plastic bags and dropped in litter baskets in downtown Tel Aviv. All three detonated within 20 minutes...