Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partnership with North America, both acting together to raise the living standards and secure the independence of the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To make this design enduring, the U.S. insisted that Britain become a member of the Common Market, followed by the Scandinavian and other NATO countries. The defense of this grand design would be twofold: conventional arms and armies supplied by Europe, and the nuclear umbrella held aloft...
Gargantuan Stocks. Conceivably, De Gaulle at one point might have been weaned away from his dream. When he returned to power in 1958 to lead a France still riven by the Algerian war, he demanded admission to a three-power directorate of NATO, but the idea was blackballed by Eisenhower and Macmillan. He probably would have been as intransigent as a co-director as he has been without becoming one. Since then, he has progressively withdrawn French ground and naval forces from NATO commands, banished U.S. nuclear warheads from French soil, and sunk billions of francs into a crash program...
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...beginnings of the argument went back to 1958, when Canada first agreed to contribute two squadrons of air-breathing Bomarc antiaircraft missiles to a joint North American Air Defense Command. Three and a half years ago, the Canadians also promised to provide eight jet squadrons for the NATO air shield in Europe. But Diefenbaker, fearing the opposition of Canadian ban-the-bombers, could never quite bring himself to accept the nuclear armament designed for the jets and missiles...
...information officer for the British Admiralty. Taylor told the three-man tribunal investigating Britain's John Vassall spy case that he was the source for the Clough story that had linked Vassall's leaks to Russia with the subsequent appearance of Soviet "trawlers" near a top secret NATO sea exercise in the Atlantic. Taylor's admission was enough to get Clough off the hook, but his testimony also shed a curious light on a Fleet Street reporter's ability to treat the flimsiest of conjectures as fact...