Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When General Lauris Norstad, retiring from SHAPE, dropped in at Ottawa last winter and allowed that Canada was not living up to its NATO commitments. Pearson, after a thoughtful week off, announced a switch in Liberal policy: since Canada had made a nuclear commitment to NATO and NORAD. it should live up to its obligations, and at a future time re-examine the rights and wrongs of the commitment...
...inclined to talk cooperation than to practice it. After indicating that they might honor a 15-month-old agreement to accept U.S.-controlled warheads for its German-based F-100 fighter-bombers, the French brusquely denied that they had any present plans "concerning the use of these planes within NATO." Nothing daunted, U.S. officials in Paris leaked wishful reports that France's nuclear force de frappe is badly behind schedule and beset with ever-mounting technical and financial problems. De Gaulle, it was hinted, was about ready to return to the NATO fold...
...missile-launching submarine, now due in 1968. Thus De Gaulle had no reason to back away from his declared aim of nuclear independence. As the Gaullist Paris-Presse pointed out, "it is his partners who have greatly changed their tone" since the general rejected the U.S. offer of NATO-committed Polaris missiles last January...
...Italy, which were both enthusiastic at first, have now indicated that they would rather sink their money in multimanned Polaris submarines. What the U.S. did win last week was substantial agreement from its allies-excluding France-on the general outline of a more limited scheme, the inter-allied, NATO-controlled strike force that Washington hopes to create in the near future...
Just a Gimmick? After a NATO session in Paris and conferences in London attended by Rusk. Defense Secretary McNamara and other top policymakers, the U.S. announced that it would present next month's NATO meeting in Ottawa with detailed plans for a nuclear command and planning structure to integrate the new inter-allied force. It would include Britain's V-bombers and, in 1968, its Polaris fleet, as well as three Polaris submarines that the U.S. has committed to NATO, and other Allied aircraft and missiles...