Word: establishing
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Between these two major points there was no quid pro quo; the U.S. was not forced to accept negotiation in order to get European acceptance of missiles, nor were the other NATO powers forced to accept missiles to establish the offer of negotiations. Many NATO countries had long been importuning the U.S. to provide them with modern weapons. But U.S. negotiators came to realize, more sharply than before, that the leaders of most NATO nations needed, for political reasons, to couple acceptance of missiles with a reiterated promise that the West is always ready to listen to practical offers...
...congratulations. The U.S. delegation had gone to Paris with some misconceptions about the temper of the rest of the NATO allies. In Washington shortly before leaving, Secretary of State Dulles had made it plain that he was counting on hard and fast acceptance of the U.S. plan to establish missile bases in Europe. Said he: "I don't favor these so-called agreements in principle." He had apparently given little weight to the talk of new East-West negotiations that had swept Europe in the wake of Russian Premier Bulganin's preconference notes to NATO nations (TIME...
...Supreme Allied Commander Europe, a stock of intermediate range ballistic missiles. Norstad would assign the missiles to any NATO member that wanted them and, in his judgment, had need of them. To give the missiles nuclear punch in case of war with the U.S.S.R., the U.S. also proposed to establish stockpiles of nuclear warheads in Europe. But the warheads, unlike the missiles themselves, would remain in U.S. custody...
...launched only three days before to plan the Air Force's space and space-weapons projects, e.g., contramissiles, space satellites, space platforms. The Air Force, charged the Pentagon's Missile Chief William M. Holaday, had "jumped the gun" and had been trying to "grab the limelight and establish a position." Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted that the Directorate of Astronautics had indeed been set up "prematurely" and "contrary to assurances." oint was that the Pentagon intends soon ) set up its own Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Dec. 16) designed both to develop fantasy weapons...
...knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd, has spent four winters there since. As it turned out, Siple's buoyant personality proved as valuable as his scientific knowledge. He ran a surprisingly contented camp despite the little group's isolation, and the wearing, jet-black night of winter that was four months long. Siple's formula...