Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...expectations were never fulfilled. Then on Oct. 25 came a curiously noncommittal announcement that Khrushchev's hand-picked chief of Soviet Missile Forces. Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, had died in an "airplane accident." Last week two reports from Europe offered different versions of what had really happened. ^ The first report, sent from Switzerland by the Chicago Daily News's veteran correspondent Paul Ghali and attributed to "foreign diplomats in Bern," said the Russians had actually rocketed a manned capsule into space sometime in early October. "But the Russian scientists on the ground were unable to separate the container...
...celebrate the paper victory, China's Chairman Liu Shao Chi took off on a stately processional round the Soviet Union in company with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. At a "friendship" rally in Moscow, Brezhnev promised that "the day is not far off when the stinking corpse of Chiang Kai-shek will no longer poison the atmosphere...
...view last September, Kennedy declared, "We must think through afresh the military mission of NATO." In the book before him, British Military Expert B. H. Liddell Hart argued that European nations perhaps should abandon atomic weapons and concentrate on conventional forces, leaving the U.S. the task of deterring Soviet atomic strength. Kennedy was convinced that European nations would likely prefer another solution: "Our partners may wish to create a NATO deterrent, supplementary to our own, under a NATO nuclear treaty." That is Norstad's pitch...
During his stay in Russia, made under a cultural-exchange agreement set up by the universities involved nearly two years ago, Goody spent two weeks in Leningrad and one in Moscow. While in the Soviet Union he gave nine lectures, reading each sentence and then waiting for an interpreter to translate...
...also editor of the publication "Inspection for Disarmament," drew a sharp distinction between disarmament and arms control. Arms control, he said, is a military plan, and it is the "defeatists of American society" who support it those who are "too weak to engage in competition with the Soviet system...