Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minute De Gaulle-Rusk meeting was described as relaxed and friendly. Their wide-ranging discussions, informants said, also touched on such questions as Cuba and the NATO nuclear force, now attracting some French interest...
...floor, thus causing the lack of a quorum. Der Alte's last-ditch maneuver proved his solid support of the U.S., which, unlike most of its allies, attaches great strategic significance to Moscow's pipeline network. But it got Adenauer into trouble at home. The pro-NATO Socialists called the Bundestag boycott dirty pool; the industrialists complained more bitterly than ever...
There the issue could have simmered indefinitely; but last week the British calmly announced that, since they had never supported NATO's pipe embargo in the first place, the government had no objection if a British firm accepted a Soviet deal for pipe that Bonn had just canceled. That only one British company was technically equipped to turn out small amounts of large-diameter pipe-and had not even received a bid from Moscow-was of small comfort to U.S. and West German officials. Nor were they reassured by the fact that Italy, a major supplier of Soviet pipe...
What really had Washington and Bonn concerned was London's next move. Brit ain, excluded for now from the Common Market and plagued by serious unemployment, was eager for export markets anywhere; if one inch of large-diameter oil pipe was delivered to Russia, the NATO boycott would be broken. West Germany and Italy could no longer be restrained. Neither could France, which has a massive (500,000 tons), and mostly unused, annual capacity for pipe production, but which supports the U.S. completely on the allies' debate over the strategic value of Moscow's Big Inch...
...banquets and receptions, the King and the President got to know and like each other. Hassan even canceled a scheduled visit to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to have additional talks with Kennedy. Their conversation ranged over many world problems, from Middle East tensions to Cuba, to NATO. There was also quiet affirmation of decisions already taken, including the U.S. pledge to evacuate three big SAC airfields and a naval base in Morocco by year's end, and to continue an unspecified amount of financial aid to Hassan's kingdom (last year's total...