Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking that night in Durham, N.H., on his way to the NATO conference in Copenhagen, John Foster Dulles, genuinely disheartened, departed from his prepared text: "At the choice of the Soviet Union, the fears and risks continue. They continue for one reason alone, and that is because the Soviet Union rejects international inspection against surprise attack. The significance of that is frightening. The result is tragic. It means that at the will and choice of the Soviet Union, we shall have to go on living on the edge of an awful abyss...
Died. Oscar Torp, 64, President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), onetime (1951-55) Prime Minister, who disapproved Norway's traditional neutrality, influenced its decision to join NATO; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Oslo...
...proposal about it. "How dangerous for Germany to follow its present path," he said. "Atomic armament can only mean eventual unhappiness-and perhaps destruction-for the German people." But if only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal Republic." Brentano was taken somewhat aback by this specious proposal but quickly rebutted: "We will throw away all our weapons, of every kind, if the Soviet Union...
...London to return Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's visit to West Germany. On the visit's eve, the two countries settled their longstanding and awkward dispute over German financing of the British army on the Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million in support that they wanted for this year...
...weighs only 6.85 lbs. (v. 9.5 lbs. for the old Garand) and serves as everything from a long-distance sniper rifle to a triple-mounted machine gun. The Air Force has designated a version of the rifle as its survival weapon, and it is being tested as a possible NATO weapon...