Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, last week. The Administration's moratorium on nuclear testing, drawn out to two years by the foot-dragging test-ban talks with the Russians at Geneva, has stopped U.S. progress cold-but "I take it for granted that the Soviet Union is actively developing nuclear technology along this revolutionary line...
...implications to the contrary contained in various parts of the report." This week, when the General Assembly debated the resolution to decide which Congo faction should be seated in the U.N., other guns would open fire at the stolid Swede. Not the least of them would probably be the Soviet Union, which still longs to squeeze Hammarskjold out of his job entirely. And then there was the irate Joseph Kasavubu to be dealt with. Without warning, the Congolese President, who for weeks has sat sphinxlike in his official mansion, suddenly announced he would fly to New York to make...
...blocks have mess halls and community toilets but neither heat nor running water in the apartments themselves. But by rigid regimentation and the help of technicians from Eastern Europe, Communist North Korea has made impressive economic progress of a sort. Ninety-five percent of the peasants are herded into Soviet-style communes. Factory workers toil 12 to 14 hours a day for wages that average $21 a month in plants that often operate round the clock...
...high-powered military mission to Pyongyang to celebrate the tenth anniversary of China's entry into the Korean war. The loan will raise China's contribution to the North Korean economy to around $500 million v. $750 million from Russia. Last week Moscow riposted with an announcement that the Soviet Union has waived repayment by North Korea of one $190 million Russian loan, agreed to defer repayment of an-other $35 million...
...Guns & Men. The Naples shipments are only a trickle compared to what Castro gets from Czechoslovakia, the Soviet bloc's export arsenal. By the end of August 1960, Czech-made R-2 .30-cal. rifles and other arms began leaving Stettin and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast in such quantity that Castro's Red-made arsenal doubled in two months, is now valued at more than $300 million. With the equipment came the experts; some estimates put the number at 3,000 from Czechoslovakia and Russia, including 17 jet pilots. In return, scores of Cuban cadets...