Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know well. Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast and Correspondent Judson Gooding concentrated on French politics and De Gaulle the man. Israel Shenker dealt with the French economic picture, Godfrey Blunden with the feeling and spirit of France, Jeremy Main with French foreign policy and the country's place in NATO. Common Market Correspondent Jason McManus reported on France's stake in the Market. In New York, their reports provided the basic material for the cover story written by Michael Demarest and edited by Edward Hughes, taking studied measure of Charles de Gaulle's triumph...
...massive endorsement of De Gaulle also stirred misgivings. For, asked Western statesmen, if he had been a cantankerous, willful ally at the head of a divided nation, what headaches were in store now that Charles de Gaulle was the absolute leader of a united France? He had often repudiated NATO commitments, brusquely disavowed the West's attempts to negotiate a Berlin settlement with Russia, pooh-poohed every attempt to reach agreement on disarmament, and, despite the entreaties of his allies, pushed stubbornly ahead with his force de frappe, a nuclear deterrent that had neither present logic nor present value...
...begun to react to these fowl blows. In Geneva, Senator J. William Fulbright from chicken-fat Arkansas interrupted a debate over nuclear weapons for NATO forces to protest Continental hostility to U.S. chickens. Conferring with Konrad Adenauer about Berlin this month, John Kennedy also brought up broilers. In Brussels two weeks ago, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman grimly announced: "We are not going to see our proper and historic export markets lightly taken away from...
...came closer than ever before to solid support of a European nuclear force. Under Secretary of State George Ball told a NATO group in Paris: "Should other NATO nations so desire, we are ready to give serious consideration to the creation of a genuinely multilateral medium-range ballistic missile force, fully coordinated with the other deterrent forces of NATO." Ball even suggested that the U.S. is already "in the process" of supplying ideas and information toward establishment of such a scheme. Still unanswered: whether the U.S. will eventually share its nuclear secrets with Europe...
Although the government explained its sudden action on the grounds that Der Spiegel had committed treason in publishing secret information on the performance of German troops in NATO exercises last September, other less honorable motives were immediately apparent...