Word: norstad
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Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris...
...capitals. The sergeants' charges, and their detention along with two other U.S. noncoms also charged with black marketing, brought U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren hustling back to the U.S. from Turkey for hush-hush consultations with the State Department (TIME. Aug. 24). From Paris, NATO's General Lauris Norstad dispatched a team of crack investigators headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, sometime FBI man. to find out just what was going on at NATO's southeastern headquarters in Izmir, the station at which the four sergeants were serving. Under NATO prodding. Izmir's Public Prosecutor even launched...
...104G Starfighters, to be made under license in Canada. The Starfighter holds both the world's official speed (1,404 m.p.h.) and airplane altitude (91,249 ft.) records, fills the bill for a ground-attack reconnaissance fighter urged on the Canadian Cabinet by NATO's General Lauds Norstad when he visited Ottawa in May. Thus Canada remains four-square among the substantial military supporters of NATO...
...latest scuffle was touched off by youthful-looking U.S. General Lauris Norstad, 52, NATO commander in Europe, whom Old Soldier de Gaulle treats as a subaltern. De Gaulle has vastly complicated Norstad's-and NATO's-existence by 1) refusing to accept launching pads for U.S. intermediate-range missiles in France, 2) failing to integrate France's strategic air defense into an overall NATO system, 3) denouncing an agreement that obligated France to put a third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in event...
...Norstad was now upset by another De Gaulle strategy-his refusal to permit stockpiling of U.S. nuclear bombs in France unless the French government has control of them. Pointedly, Norstad let it be known that he was thinking of transferring nine squadrons of U.S. F-100 and F-1O1 fighter-bombers out of France...