Word: mediterraneans
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Judging from past experience. De Gaulle's reply will be non; he has refused to return to NATO two divisions that he withdrew for use in the Algerian war, still keeps his fleet out of NATO's Mediterranean defense screen, and prohibits use of French bases for storage of U.S. nuclear weapons...
...Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels from the Atlantic to the Adriatic, yielding to the mystic lure of the sun that impelled...
...promised to withdraw by the end of 1963. and SAC has already begun shifting planes to bases in Spain. Morocco's neutralist government will probably also insist that the U.S. Navy give up its base at Kenitra, an important communications center for the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean...
...plaque on his desk in the Pentagon's E-Ring reads FAST CHARGER. This was the radio call of Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. when he was commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. It is also appropriate to the man who, as Chief of Naval Operations, holds responsibility for forging and operating the Cuba blockade. For he is an aggressive blue-water sailor of unfaltering competence and uncommon flair...
Those who served with him in the Mediterranean-from the swabbies on up-testify to the excellence of his service with the Sixth Fleet. With 60 ships, 200 planes and 30,000 men, Anderson spider-webbed the Mediterranean, keeping watch on trouble spots and dogging Soviet "trawlers." He also worked as a diplomat, became friendly with European leaders who came to regard him as a representative of U.S. policy in the region...