Word: bundeswehr
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...grounds at St. Louis, a big military transport plane designed to operate off short runways, a French-designed heavy helicopter. But the most important joint project in the works was the Europa Panzer, a medium tank; when first conceived, the idea was that it would replace the West German Bundeswehr's 2,000 out-of-date U.S. M-47s and M-48s, give the French army a fast, quick-firing, maneuverable weapon...
...cover story on Bundeswehr Inspector General Friedrich Foertsch, Der Spiegel reviewed September NATO military exercises, reported signs of chaotic neglect in West Germany's civil defense organization, and argued that the country's NATO troops were in a dismal state of unpreparedness. Practically all Der Spiegel's evidence was classified "top secret," a fact duly noted by West German Acting Federal Prosecutor Dr. Gerhard Wesgram in Karlsruhe...
...Berlin. In some Washington quarters, there was talk of incorporation of West Berlin into West Germany by official decree, and stationing of West German troops in the isolated city. At the very least, insisted Administration officials, the U.S. expected units of West Germany's powerful 375,000-man Bundeswehr to declare themselves available for duty as Berlin blockade busters. These notions fitted in with the thinking of visiting Mayor Willy Brandt, who believes that four-power status for all Berlin-meaning Western rights in East Berlin-has become a fiction. He suggests that, instead of clinging to this fiction...
...year ago, Strauss's political road seemed clear. The aging Adenauer would soon quit; Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a proficient economist but an uncertain politi cian, would not last long as successor; the third Chancellor of the Federal Republic would be the man who had forged the Bundeswehr into NATO's most powerful, most willing European partner...
...provided by aggressive Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who demands that NATO become a ''fourth atomic power''; this obviously would make West Germany an atomic power as well, for despite NATO's control over them, nuclear warheads would be in the hands of the Bundeswehr. Most of the American nuclear weapons on the Continent are already on West German soil but under strict U.S. control...