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| 1964, Feb. 21 |
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| Danish Premier Krag, on a state visit to the Soviet Union, stated that he hoped to increase trade with the USSR. | 1 |
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| March 3–10 |
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| A high-level Romanian delegation arrived in Peking (Beijing) in an effort to bridge the Soviet-Chinese rift. | 2 |
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| March 31 |
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| The U.S. Air Force announced that training flights in a 70-mile zone along the East-West German border would be prohibited in the future. Three U.S. airmen shot down March 10 had been released earlier by the Soviet Union. | 3 |
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| April 22 |
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| The Romanian Communist Party asserted in the strongest terms its claims to full equality and independence. | 4 |
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| May 4 |
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| France withdrew its officers from the NATO naval commands. | 5 |
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| May 13 |
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| Manlio Brosio of Italy was elected to succeed Dirk Stikker (Aug. 1) as secretary general of NATO. | 6 |
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| June 12 |
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| Signing of a 20-year treaty of friendship and mutual assistance between the Soviet Union and East Germany. The treaty included a guarantee of the frontiers of the German Democratic Republic. | 7 |
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| July 22 |
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| Celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Polish Republic. Khrushchev, Walter Ulbricht, and Antonín Novotný joined in casting aspersions on Romanian nationalism. | 8 |
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| Sept |
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| Prime Minister Ulbricht, in a parliamentary speech, asked for East German membership in the UN and proposed a treaty between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and a general reduction of forces in Germany. | 9 |
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| Dec. 15 |
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| Members of the Common Market, after prolonged debate, agreed on a common wholesale price for wheat. German farmers were to be compensated for substantial losses vis-à-vis their French counterparts. | 10 |
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| Dec. 16 |
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| British prime minister Harold Wilson's counterproposal for a broader Atlantic nuclear force. The U.S. proposal for a NATO multilateral nuclear force of 25 mix-manned surface ships, equipped with Polaris missiles, had met with a favorable response only from West Germany. | 11 |
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