Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only specific proposal to ease NATO tensions is the U.S.'s MLF concept of a 25-vessel fleet of Polaris-missile-equipped merchant ships, manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. This is aimed at reducing the resentment of the allies against U.S. veto power over the use of nuclear weapons and at checking the proliferation of such weapons. The MLF missiles would cover Communist airfields and medium-range missile sites that now threaten Central Europe...
Whatever the fate of MLF, it is obviously no complete answer to NATO's problems. Those problems arise from fundamental changes in allied relationships. As such, they require some fundamental rethinking about the NATO edifice-and what Europe should...
...quarter-spin around the globe from NATO's Europe lies another deferred problem. Viet Nam is not an area in which the U.S. must either deal with allies or depend on them. If there is to be a solution in Viet Nam, the U.S. must pretty much go it alone...
...smallest member of NATO was the one least troubled by the alarms and arguments over European defense. Although Luxembourg was for centuries fought over by France and Germany, its 153 turreted castles now serve as tourist attractions, and last week its 327,000 subjects were concerned with a purely sentimental occasion. It was one of those episodes suggesting that, despite the new Europe's growing pains, the old Europe somehow goes...
Died. Heinrich von Brentano, 60, West Germany's benign, scholarly Foreign Minister from 1955 to 1961, a founder and former floor leader of Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party, who as minister enthusiastically echoed der A he's support for NATO and the Common Market, while quietly pushing his own vision of a "Christian Western Europe" that would share a single culture, religion and constitution; of cancer; in Darmstadt, Germany...