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Konrad Adenauer hit the ceiling. In this election year the opposition, Socialists and Free Democrats, have vigorously decried any attempt to equip the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. Since Adenauer had intended from the start to get his nuclear weapons from the U.S.-Germany is treaty-bound not to produce them itself-he professed not to be disturbed by the scientists' pledge not to help make or test them. ("None of these 18 gentlemen," he snapped, "has been asked by anyone to cooperate in this matter, and none will be.") But he was plainly angry to hear...
REFRIGERATOR ESCAPE device to prevent children from trapping themselves inside will be put on all new refrigerators sold after late 1958. Department of Commerce will require makers to use doors that are easily pushed open from inside, or equip them with inside knobs...
Such a force-in-being-or force-soon-to-be-demands the services of a phenomenal one-tenth of the U.S. labor force to man, equip, maintain and feed it. It also demands the unflagging efficiency, enthusiasm and watchfulness of the front-line crews and the steady support of the public during years of strain that know no letup. Whenever Admiral Radford gets away from his three briefcases of Sunday homework to take a drive with his wife Marianna (which is rarely), he must first outline his exact route to a duty officer, so that troopers can be deployed...
...Dual Purpose." One after another, NATO's European members insisted that their economies could not stand any stronger drain on their resources. The answer, they argued, was to provide more firepower with fewer men. How? Equip all NATO divisions with tactical atomic weapons. Since Britain's atomic production is too limited to supply even its own divisions adequately, this came down to a demand on the U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson pointed out that U.S. law bans the sale of U.S. atomic weapons, but he agreed that the U.S. would supply and train Europeans...
...hove in sight, ordered her to heave to. Said the French commander, peeping under the hatches: "A floating arsenal." When the old vessel's contraband cargo was laid out on the quay at Mers-el-Kebir, the French army found sufficient mortars, machine guns, rifles and pistols to equip 3,000 guerrillas...