Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that non-nuclear war is now possible in Europe, U.S. strategists want to beef up NATO's strength in conventional weapons. For the President the new doctrine meant long hours of convincing West Germany's change-wary Konrad Adenauer (see Foreign Relations) that the U.S. resolve to defend Berlin and Europe has not weakened. Far more challenging would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger voice in shaping the alliance's policy, perhaps offer...
Higher Threshold. Adenauer's gravest cause of uneasiness was his suspicion that the new Administration was softening in its resolve to use nuclear weapons to defend Western Europe against a Russian attack with conventional forces. Adenauer knew that the new Administration wanted to build up NATO's conventional military forces and to raise the "threshold" at which the U.S. would employ nuclear weapons. He also knew that the Kennedy Administration was doubtful about previous plans to build up a new deterrent force of Polaris missile submarines, under the control of NATO rather than the U.S. -a proposal that...
Only in this spirit could one have heard a Master say of the rule that parietals end when House functions begin: "I wouldn't want to defend it, but I'm not going to change it." A nervous adherence to the status quo is the only way to avoid facing the very disturbing problems behind the parietal rules...
Since 1946 the Court has handled 46 cases. Most spectacular was Britain's oil dispute with Iran in 1952, when Premier Mohammed Mossadegh himself appeared at the Court to defend nationalization of the British wells and refinery. When The Hague judges handed down an interim ruling in Britain's favor, Mossadegh simply declared that Iran would no longer accept the Court's jurisdiction. Last year the Court finally, after years of arguments, ruled for Honduras in the ancient Honduras-Nicaragua border squabble, but to this day the judges have received no official word as to whether Nicaragua...
...were rushed from Rome, and the Imam's probable heir, ambitious Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 35, summoned all governors and deputy governors to confer with him in Hodeida. Since such meetings usually precede the election of a new Imam, many Yemenis were convinced that the Defend er of the Faith was dying. The prudent people of Yemen will believe it when it is official...