Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical movement arises, which Conant thinks unlikely if Germany's economy remains stable, it will not be connected with Nazism. He noted that United States support of NATO and a stable world economy will also diminish the chance of the appearance of such a movement...
...Objectives. Thus Khrushchev translated the new world prestige of Sputnik and the world's fears of Red missiles into one, specific, power-political threat to an area that the Communists have long and unsuccessfully sought to domi nate. He sought to intimidate NATO Partner Turkey, which is menaced by Russia on the north and by an increasingly Red Syria on the south (see FOREIGN NEWS). He sought to feel out the temper of the NATO nations and discover whether the U.S.'s European allies would stand by the U.S. He also sought to make an impressive power play...
Thanks to those bases and to a superior nuclear arsenal, the U.S. has always before been in a position to inflict what NATO's General Lauris Norstad once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither...
...Meyer, associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, forecast the decline of the Cypriote economy during the next five to seven years and called for a NATO trusteeship until Cyprus could be made solvent. Carlyle Morgan of the Christian Science Monitor also stressed the role NATO might play in the period before Cyprus could be allowed self-determination...
...roots of French insecurity is her weakening hold on Algeria, where terrorist activities tie down 400,000 French troops, who are theoretically committed to NATO and who cost French reserves nearly a billion dollars a year. For almost three years (since November 1, 1954) France has been fighting in Algeria for a fictional Overseas French Union and for the principle that France is still a great nation. As Eric Sevareid said last Sunday, "Loss of Algeria could spell the end of France as a top-ranking power...