Word: hassell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...generals were angry with Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel, 53. Luftwaffe Lieut. General Werner Panitzki publicly charged that Von Hassel had delayed making needed improvements in Germany's F-104 Starfighter fleet, of which 61 have crashed, killing 35 pilots. Four-star General Heinz Trettner, the West German equivalent to the U.S.'s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went up in smoke after Von Hassel failed to consult him before ruling-of all things-that labor union organizers could enter military camps to recruit career enlisted men and officers for their ranks. The third resignation...
Last week, in conferences with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, President Johnson discussed the NATO problem at length. McNamara also held long consultations in Washington with West Germany's visiting Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel; U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball was in Europe trying to sell the idea of a multilateral nuclear force (MLF), and former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer injected himself back into the discussions with a visit to Charles de Gaulle to "try to clarify existing difficulties between France and Germany...
...getting kegs of free beer from the celebrities they spot in ringside seats below them. If no beer is forthcoming, the haylofters boo their target unmercifully, indulging in a "cult of disrespectfulness" that is half the fun of the Six Days. When West German Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel appeared one night, he was roundly booed. But when he donned a crash helmet and bravely mounted a racing bike, the crowd went wild...
...Germany, while concerned with NATO's future, of course, seems far more interested in the multilateral force as a vehicle for gaining her own nuclear bargaining power. West German defense minister Von Hassel has openly talked of persuading the American "partner" to give up any kind of special veto power as soon as the MLF becomes a military reality. As plans stand now, the Germans would pay 40% of the costs of MLF, not too high a price for a golden opportunity to gain some nuclear independence. In the Age of the Test Ban Treaty (by which, as a signatory...
...decided to order 110 Transalls, Lockheed nevertheless set up a special sales command post in Bonn and prevailed on a majority of the members of the Bundestag defense committee to vote against granting Transall funds and to call for a flying competition between the Transall and the Hercules. Von Hassel exploded. He denounced Lockheed for "deliberately operating with false figures and data," prodded the Bundestag committee into reversing itself and approving the funds for the Transall and, for good measure, pointedly postponed a $70 million order for 33 Lockheed F-104 trainers. Still boiling, Von Hassel also demanded that Lockheed...