Word: nato
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third time. Finally, after two strikes and a foul tip, Thor had saved Air Force face by hitting a mighty home run. More importantly, its undisputed success had added a mighty score to the West's defenses, particularly from NATO nations and overseas bases: Thor in last week's test traveled not just 1,500 miles...
...carrier planes got through to make dummy atom attacks on Norway's ports, bridges and airfields. Into the midst of this earnest make-believe strayed a Russian trawler-a real one. The Russian, being overtaken, had the right of way and held it, passing diagonally through the entire NATO fleet as the big ships refueled and moved beyond...
Operation Strike Back is the first of half a dozen ambitious NATO maneuvers to be held in the next few weeks along a 5,000-mile arc stretching from northern Norway to southern Turkey. Operation Deep Water will see some 10,000 U.S. marines make a landing on the famed Gallipoli Peninsula, guarding the Dardanelles at Russia's back doorstep. Operation Counter Punch, in Central Europe, will call into action all NATO's air strength together with the national air-defense systems of Britain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands. All in all, more than...
...nations now embroiled in the Middle East, Turkey is the only one that the U.S. is treaty-bound (in NATO) to defend. The sturdy and staunchly anti-Communist Turks are caught by geography between the Soviet Union and Syria. To guard their freedom, they keep 500,000 men under arms, and even with U.S. aid have a heavy defense burden. In addition, after centuries of feudalistic Ottoman rule, the Turks have tried to rush pell-mell into a modern industrial economy. Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes has spent more for public improvements than the economy could stand, and the Turkish economy...
...part of the largest display of peacetime might the 15-nation alliance has ever staged, NATO this week will hold naval maneuvers west of Norway. Last week, plunging into the chill northern waters first, the well-trained Soviet Arctic fleet began war games off Murmansk and the top of Norway...