Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shipyards are booming with orders for new supertankers. For the present, defense mobilizers say that Europe will have to pay dollars for the oil, but for the long pull ways could be found to advance financial aid so that Europe's industry can keep rolling and the NATO area remain viable. Most hopeful prospect: the Administration is planning to channel most Western Hemisphere oil through the 17-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Thus, while handling the short-term emergency, the U.S. is helping to advance the long-term concept of an economically integrated Western Europe...
There were other accomplishments. She negotiated the NATO status-of-forces agreement, which gives the Western forces a firm military anchor in Italy. And she coordinated diplomatic overseas planning for the potentially hazardous-but successful-evacuation of some 2,800 Americans from the Middle East, principally by the U.S. Sixth Fleet under Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown...
...might well have become the Army's basic infantry weapon, but while it was being developed and tested Belgium's famed Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre also brought out a new automatic. Dubbed the F.N., it was quickly adopted as the standard rifle of such NATO partners as Britain, France, Canada and Belgium. Rather than fall completely out of step, the Army ordered the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. tested competitively, wound up deciding the T 44 was still the rifle it wanted. From the Army's research and development staff came...
Just the day before, ambassadors of twelve NATO nations had walked out on a Khrushchev tirade that lumped Britain, France and Israel as bandits. Now Khrushchev was off again...
Turkey (pop. 24,110,000). Hates and fears Russia, whether Russia is Communist or not. A secularized Mos lem state, very friendly to the U.S., Turkey is the eastern anchor of NATO. Its 500,000-man army is the area's best. Sides with Britain over Cyprus. Turks dislike Nasser, chiefly because he opened the door to the Russians in the Middle East...