Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO ambassadors in Paris one day last week went a brusque message: "Emergency." Within the hour, the ambassadors gathered around a big green conference table in the Palais de Chaillot. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak put it to them bluntly. "At stake," said he, "is the very reputation of NATO itself...
...weeks, in private chats, in special sessions, owlish, bustling Paul-Henri Spaak has been sounding out three squabbling NATO partners-Britain, Greece and Turkey-begging them to settle their agonizing, paralyzing quarrel over Cyprus, which has all but broken up NATO's defenses in the Eastern Mediterranean. He was not even able to get the participants to agree to sit down together at a conference table...
...Haggling. Unless everybody gave a little, Spaak felt, NATO might find itself buried in the fresh graves being dug every day in Cyprus...
...Greeks were even hinting at dropping out of NATO. Yet Athens popped up with a surprise concession. Bearded Archbishop Makarios, temporal and spiritual leader of the Greek Cypriots, dropped his old demand for enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece). He would be willing, he said, to settle for independence for the island after a period of internal self-government...
...rifle replacing the familiar Garand M-1 (adopted in 1936), weighs a pound less (8.7 Ibs.), has a 20-round magazine (v. 8 rounds), fires 7.62-mm. NATO ammunition, which is smaller and lighter than the old .30-cal. ammo. Gone: the bayonet. Interchange of barrels makes the M-15, automatic version of the M-14, almost 7 Ibs. lighter than the Browning Automatic Rifle...