Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frankenstein Peril. In a year of diplomatic junketing by all heads of state, Herter's travels have produced no dramatics-either soaring victories or crashing defeats. "The method of doing business has changed," says a ranking State Department official. "The element of immediate crisis has been held in abeyance. Whether it will recur after the summit, I don't know." Yet, in Herter's year, the U.S. has strengthened its position in the Middle East, in Communist-menaced Southeast Asia, in Japan, in Latin America, and has even lifted (by dint of presidential diplomacy) Khrushchev...
...Administration's remaining nine months, Herter hopes to lessen "the dangers of the Frankenstein monsters we have created in the war machines of the world," with the first shackle on the nuclear monster possibly a test-ban treaty. But last week Chris Herter characteristically promised no international Utopia in his speech to the National Association of Broad casters in Chicago. "We can hardly move forward confidently in negotiating new arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union if our existing agreements with them about Berlin are meanwhile being violated," said he. "If anyone looks for dramatic achievements at the summit...