Word: armaments
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Since direct atomic armament of Germany is forbidden by the peace treaty, Sartori continued, the MLF is vital to Germany's full participation in the Atlantic partnership. "But," he asked, "is pleasing Germany worth the price of DeGaulle pulling out of NATO? Take away either Germany or France--really, nothing remains of European defense...
Many a spiritual movement has expired with its founder, but Moral Re-Armament is made of more durable stuff. Three years after the death of Frank Buchman, M.R.A. feels as assured as ever that it will conquer the world with its four absolutes: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love...
...manned supersonic bombers, or more potent missiles, or a mix of both-there is little argument about what is needed for the small, brushfire battles of the present. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps all agree that they need fighter planes and transports husky enough to handle modern armament, yet agile enough to take off and land on back-country roads or small jungle clearings...
...were flown 4,000 hours or more; a B-26 once returned riddled by 40 bullet holes, was back in the air two days later. When Viet Cong firepower increased, so did the stresses on the motley fleet's wings-already loaded down with armament-as pilots pulled up more abruptly from attack dives. Last week Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert conceded that "structural failure may have been a contributing factor" in the crashes of three T-28s. The Air Force also announced that Viet Nam's entire squadron of B-26s was phased out, ending last month...
...little of this and a little of that," he allows. Last year he made mostly stabiles, predominantly black, which stand out as sharply as docile dinosaurs against the pastel countryside. Marveled the art critic of Paris' prestigious Le Monde: "Is this not America, embodied by an armament so firm and yet so open?" Calder's neighbors also approve of his activities. The Touraine, they recall proudly, was the spawning ground of Rabelais' Gargantua, "the giant son of a giant." With Calder in their midst, it seems almost like old times...