Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk turned briefly, and perhaps more profitably, from a debate to a monologue. He told the ministers that the U.S. will close its ports to any ships-including those of its NATO allies-which carry cargoes of any type to Cuba, then seek return payloads from the U.S. Neither will the U.S. open its harbors to any government cargo, such as surplus food, to be carried on any ship owned by a firm engaged in Soviet-Cuba traffic. This, too, would make it difficult for ships to pick up transatlantic loads in both directions-and one-way loads...
...military alliance needs "hardware," and there is some nagging disagreement as to who should be NATO's chief supplier. The British complain bitterly that the U.S. is crowding them out of more and more arms deals, particularly with West Germany. "Tried and proved British weapons," cried London's Sunday Telegraph, "have been pushed out of Germany by political and economic pressure from...
...project as "organized scrap production." Just two months ago, they were jolted once more when Bonn chose America's Sergeant missile over Britain's Blue Water model. Out the window went $100 million and 2,000 jobs. "A lamentable mockery of the principle of interdependence in NATO," cried Tory M.P. Stephen Hastings, whose constituency includes the plant where the Blue Water was being developed. "I have little doubt that we could have sold it in Germany and perhaps France but for ruthless American salesmanship backed by economic sanctions...
Some time this year, NATO is supposed to select a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) plane, and even though Britain's P.1154 has a clear jump on the field, officials already are worried. "The U.S. could ask everybody to hold off and wait for theirs," said one Briton, and that might mean grave trouble for big planemakers like British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley...
Washington does not deny that it likes to sell as much as it can to NATO, partly to stem the gold drain. And while British charges of undue U.S. pressure may be exaggerated, the U.S., as NATO's leading member, is certainly in an excellent position to influence prospective customers. As the star salesman of the campaign, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric is just back from Western Europe. He brought home a West German agreement to buy $1.2 billion in U.S. hardware over the next two years. Almost simultaneously, the British announced that they too had closed a deal...