"It is clear that the main elementof any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies, " he wrote.
The first elementof this plan advanced on Thursday, when European Union ambassadors agreed on details of the new single supervisor to come into being next year.
The International Unionof Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) will officially endorse the new element's name in six months' time in order to give the scientific community "time to discuss the suggestion".