Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...root of its downfall was a long-developing schism between the party's moderate, pro-West majority and its far-left fringe, which demands Norway's withdrawal from NATO. Two years ago, some leftist Laborites bolted, formed a splinter "Socialist People's Party," and managed to win two parliamentary seats. Partly as a result of the defection, Premier Einar Gerhardsen's government lost its majority in the Storting (parliament), found itself deadlocked, 74 seats to 74 seats, with the opposition coalition. The balance of power was held by two splinter leftists. Reluctantly, Gerhardsen accepted their support...
...unchallenged leader of his party for two decades, Gerhardsen, 66, had become a national institution, was so scrupulous that he insisted on buying his own postage stamps for personal letters. He ran a part-free, largely controlled economy, was staunchly pro-West and led Norway into NATO. His successor was expected to be blond, husky Conservative Floor Leader John Lyng, 58, attorney and brilliant prosecutor of Norway's Nazi war criminals. Conservative Lyng's four-party coalition consists chiefly of farmers, merchants and industrialists, whose economic views are less statist than the Laborites'; but Lyng will hardly...
...their threats into acts of war." As for the U.N., which two weeks earlier called anew for curtailment of arms to Portugal, he saw the "massive entry" of Afro-Asian states as having distorted the world organization into a threat to peace. And in a bitter jab at his NATO partner, the U.S., which has been urging Portugal to decolonize, Salazar accused Washington of competing with Russia in Africa, principally for spheres of political influence and markets...
...other words, a top Defense Department official explained, the U.S. is becoming impatient with the rest of NATO and finds its most effective partner for European defense in West Germany. "Under no circumstances," he said, "must we back away from our buildup in Europe. The Russians are only taking the road they have on the test ban because the pressure has been kept on them. We must keep up that pressure. Any reduction or slowdown would be disastrous...
...pledge of peaceful reunification. Moreover, he pointed out that countries that do not recognize each other nevertheless sign treaties. (One example: the Laos truce agreement, signed by the U.S. and Red China.) The fact remains that a non-aggression agreement, beyond the unilateral pledges already made by NATO, would be taken as a formal recognition of the European status quo, and that could only help Khrushchev unless the West were to obtain significant concessions in return...