Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...document that could easily bring a snort of satisfaction from Charles de Gaulle, who had, after all, been the first in the business of building bridges to the East. The rest of NATO found it all the easier to lean his way because of the new direction in West German policy. After years of intransigence in East-West relations, the Federal Republic under the new grand coalition of Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger was doing things that not even De Gaulle could undertake. In its first policy statement to the Bundestag last week, Kiesinger, after placing top priority on good relations with...
...will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West German demand for full-fledged treatment in NATO, while at the same time retaining absolute U.S. nuclear control. That way, the Russians cannot easily use the NATO arrangement as a pretext for refusing to sign a nuclear nonproliferation treaty-in itself an important move toward further détente...
...enhance the clashing confrontation, as in the cloaks, of liquidy greens and reds. The carved and gilded frames are showpieces of Gothic craftsmanship, but within the woodcarving can be seen classic marble columns, first tentative annunciation that the new spirit of the Renaissance was beginning to blow through German art. And the Virgin is no longer hieratic and remote; she is instead a distillation of young girlhood and Bavarian beauty...
...Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water ($14), and a six-man international task force of "action soldiers of the world"-French, German, Japanese, British, Australian, and a fur-capped Russian...
...European theater, he continually opposed the dangerous dispersion of U.S. forces on peripheral operations. He did not disguise the fact that he found hair-raising some brilliantly improvised British plans for commando-type raids on the German-held coasts of Europe. He felt that they might dissipate the grand design that culminated in the huge assault on the beachheads of Normandy. He was not a commando-minded man-and it was just as well...