Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GAULLE contends that NATO-which in private he often dismisses as "the American command"-might no longer use its U.S.-controlled nuclear weapons to defend the Continent now that Russia can retaliate directly against the U.S. France must have its own "modest" nuclear deterrent, he argues, in order to "have, whatever happens, our own share in our own destiny." Thus, as he once put it, France could at least "tear an arm" off an aggressor. He announced also that NATO will not get back the two NATO-committed French divisions that were diverted to Algeria. Explained De Gaulle...
...powerful U.S. force in Europe. Said he: "Without the U.S., we are lost." KENNEDY, pointing out that France still relies totally on NATO for its own security, said succinctly last week: "A coherent policy cannot call for both our presence and our absence." The U.S. argues that even a "modest" nuclear deterrent will prove prohibitively expensive for France with the rapid sophistication of delivery systems and will not in fact deter a major power. If such a modest striking force were ever deployed against Russia, it would have little strategic effect, but would almost certainly prompt devastating retaliation. In short...
...Community crumbled. Houphouet was eloquently distressed: "I found myself waiting in front of the cathedral with the wilted flowers of the federation in my arms." Today he remains a friend of De Gaulle's; sometimes, referring to his hero's country home, he will call his own modest house in the village of Yamoussoukro "Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises." Houphouet-Boigny's sentiments have hardly endeared him to the hotheads of Africa-the Nkrumahs. the Toures and the Nassers-whose political existence is largely based on cursing yesterday's colonialism and extolling today's "positive...
Davidson, who is a rather modest and unassuming person, seems a little embarrassed by the sizeable proportions of some of his most successful efforts. But he has pursued his ideas with a dedicated fervor that could hardly be considered meek...
...reason for reversing him." At finance committee meetings, there is no small talk-just "important gossip about such things as the economic atmosphere." Periodically, to support a thesis or answer a question, Donner whips out of his inside jacket pocket a handy little argument settler. Most auto executives have modest ones, but Donner's comes in a specially made 2-in.-thick leather case. It is jammed with scores of photostatted cards, about the size of a playing card. containing in miniature all the latest vital statistics on G.M. and the auto industry, as well as basic figures about...