Word: nato
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Mintoff has been as wary of the Soviets as he has of the British and their NATO allies. He barred the U.S. Sixth Fleet from liberty visits to Malta in 1972. But he has also refused to let Moscow establish an embassy. Mintoff has tried to pursue a course that he calls "positive neutrality." Aside from China, which is helping Malta build a drydock for supertankers, at a cost of $40 million, Mintoffs greatest friend of the moment is Libya. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi last week pledged "total support," but nobody knows exactly what that may mean. Many Maltese nevertheless resent...
Bonn's counterintelligence assumed that Rödiger and her swain had fled to East Germany, as a number of other unmarried secretaries have recently done. Three of the women were employed by officials of the Christian Democratic Union, while a fourth worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels. All were apparently ensnared by a now familiar East German gambit: assigning handsome male Communist agents to lure well-placed secretaries into love-and spying...
...secretarial scramble eastward began with the disappearance of Ursel Lorenzen, 42, from NATO headquarters. When next seen, she was on East German television, declaring that she had "daily evidence of NATO's real preparations for totally destructive nuclear war." NATO officials ruefully conceded that she could indeed have passed classified information to the Communists...
...divorce was the latest in a series of misfortunes that have bedeviled Brandt since 1974, when a close personal aide, Günter Guillaume, was arrested as a Communist spy. Not only had Guillaume passed on NATO secrets to East Germany, but he had also sabotaged Brandt personally by collecting evidence of indiscretions in the Chancellor's private life. Brandt was forced to resign. Guillaume was later sentenced to 13 years in prison for espionage...
...fairly widespread. The modern conventional war would be over quickly because of the speed with which supplies would be consumed. (The danger of such war games is that even professional strategists can be overtaken by events. The book assumes, for example, that Iran, led by the Shah, would support NATO strongly.) As this history develops, open revolt among the satellite nations and within the Soviet Union splits the country into republics, but not before an ICBM destroys Birmingham, England, and a counter-strike obliterates Minsk. The realignment after the war leaves Moscow's former do main Balkanized...