Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...President told his press conference that the real cause of world tension is not the U.S. policy of high flights but the Soviet "fetish of secrecy and concealment" behind which the U.S.S.R. could prepare a large-scale attack without detection. "No one wants another Pearl Harbor. This means that we must have knowledge of military forces and preparations around the world, especially those capable of massive surprise attacks. Secrecy in the Soviet Union makes this essential . . . Ever since the beginning of my Administration, I have issued directives to gather in every feasible way the information required to protect the United...
...things creating tension in the world today," it said, "is apprehension over surprise attack with weapons of mass destruction. To reduce mutual suspicion and to get a measure of protection against surprise attack, the U.S. in 1955 offered its 'open skies' proposal-a proposal which was rejected out of hand by the Soviet Union. It is in relation to the danger of surprise attack that planes of the type of the unarmed civilian U-2 aircraft have made flights along the frontiers of the free world for the past four years...
...replace him. Evidently still smarting from his unscheduled debate with Nixon at the U.S. fair in Moscow last summer, Khrushchev rumbled: "It is hard for me to shake the impression that the last thing Nixon has in mind is to reach agreement on outstanding questions, liquidate the conditions of tension, and stop the arms race." Sending him to the summit, added Khrushchev, drawing on his ghostwriters' stock of Russian parables, is like "leaving the cabbage to the care of the goat...
After seven days of martial law, officials of Premier Adnan Menderes' government judged that the tension in Turkey was subsiding. Istanbul students who tried to stage new demonstrations against the ruling Democrats during the three-day NATO foreign ministers' meeting were thrown back by troops. The legislative "inquiry" into the opposition Republicans' "subversive and illegal" activities was already well under way in star-chamber secrecy. At midweek, students in Ankara began bandying about the rallying password "55 K" (translation: May 5 at 5 p.m. at Kizilay Square). The password reached the ears of the police...
Conspiracy of Hearts. Lilli Palmer is the mother superior of an Italian convent where Jewish children-escaped from a Nazi concentration camp-are sheltered. A movie of ulcer-perforating tension...