Word: moratorium
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...cried Egypt's Foreign Minister. Some "neutrals" had well-meaning but irrelevant proposals of their own to make: Ethiopia's Acting Foreign Minister Ke-tema Yifru pleaded that Africa be declared an "atom-free zone"; Sweden's Foreign Minister Osten Unden plumped for a "provisional" test moratorium without any safeguards...
...explanatory newscasts. Films and video tapes of the speech were flown to 101 nations. Last week USIA posts abroad were analyzing foreign reaction to Kennedy's speech and reporting it milder than even the bland and brief censure directed against the Soviet Union for breaking the test ban moratorium last year...
...Khrushchev on the defensive. Every nation acknowledges the right of all nations to take the necessary steps to defend themselves. If, in the nature of modern weapons, there is a special onus attached to preparing a nuclear defense, then the Russians-who cheated upon and broke the three-year moratorium-now had a new opportunity to decide whether the U.S. goes ahead with its tests. A maneuver "strongly resembling blackmail," cried the Russian news agency Tass. The Soviet Union declared that it had no intention of accepting Western proposals for a test ban at this month's 18-nation...
...Kennedy refuses to believe that the U.S. can afford another uninspected moratorium; he says that moratoria are too dangerous, and that scientists simply cannot be expected constantly to prepare tests that may never take place. His tone inclines one to believe...
...even while those talks were under way, both Russia and the U.S. announced that they were voluntarily suspending atomic tests. The U.S. lived up to the moratorium in word and deed. But Russia used the interim to make vast preparations for the series of Soviet atomic tests in the atmosphere that began last September. Studies of those tests have made it critically clear that the U.S. must itself resume atmospheric testing if it is to regain the huge lead it once held over the Soviet Union in nuclear weaponry. This week the National Security Council is scheduled to suggest...