Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those organization abbreviations in your Dec. 16 NATO article: just imagine a flying SACEUR slipping into SHAPE...
...Russians did not even wait for the NATO chiefs to get back home. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko briskly dismissed the NATO chiefs' proffer of a new foreign ministers' conference on disarmament. "We are in fact invited to sit again at a conference table with the same NATO members with whom we have patiently negotiated until now," he told the Supreme Soviet, "and to launch again into sterile negotiations which do not advance the cause of disarmament one whit." In almost the same breath and on almost the same grounds, he scuttled any idea of renewed Russian participation...
...this juncture, Khrushchev went to the rostrum and ratified what his foreign minister had said ("I fully agree"). Conceding that the NATO communique statement that the West will never attack Russia unless attacked itself "is not badly put," he added a suggestion of his own: a summit meeting between the U.S. and Russia alone...
...notes showered on NATO members on the eve of the Paris conference, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin dropped one calculated teaser: a proposal that both East Germany and West Germany ban the production and stockpiling of atomic weapons in their territories. If the two Germanys would agree to this, said Bulganin, Poland and Czechoslovakia would also adhere to the ban. A de-atomized zone would be created across Central Europe; tensions might be reduced...
...correspondents from 38 countries who packed into Paris last week, no story of the NATO conference was followed more avidly than President Eisenhower's health. News-starved reporters based endless prognostications on Ike's posture and color, analyzed his inflections with elocutionary zeal. With every minor schedule change came a new flock of rumors; the evening that Ike canceled his appearance at the initial NATO banquet, Paris-Presse reported breathlessly that he had brought along his oxygen tent. To scuttle the scuttlebutt, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty opened his thrice-daily press conference to the whole...