Word: norstad
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Last week, back from a tour of Europe (a must for potential candidates), where he visited NATO's General Lauris Norstad and West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt ("great fella"), handsome Stu Symington held a news conference. Was he a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Reply: "I appreciate the thought. But at this time I have no organization and no plans." But would he refuse a draft? Reply: "I'm in the business of politics. Of course I wouldn't refuse. I wouldn't refuse anything like that." Stu Symington had avoided saying anything divisive...
...NATO's tenth anniversary into a resounding statement of support for a policy of no backdown on Berlin, no disengagement in Central Europe-"no surrender by stages," one NATO minister put it. "Not one handful of NATO earth has been lost," said NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad in Paris. "Keep...
...Daily Mirror was a good deal less diplomatic in its anger over the Hercules flight and the U.S. military in general. "A new menace!" it cried. "The loudmouthed American generals . . . The peoples of the West-and of Russia and her satellites-are expected to believe that General Lauris Norstad (American general), General Nathan Twining (American general), General Thomas D. White (American general) are the only men who matter." A speech by NATO Commander Norstad opposing a thin-out of Western forces in Europe was called "a threat to the hopes of world peace." The comments before congressional committees...
...unspecified areas. The British say that they would not agree to anything that would tend to increase the Communist balance of military power, believe the East Germans should sign the agreement, say they are not advocating a prohibition on nuclear weapons in Germany. But NATO's General Lauris Norstad went on record last week with his belief that any move toward thinning out Western forces in Germany would be potentially catastrophic for the West. Result of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks: strong disagreement on both the freeze and thinning...
...single aircraft carrier-was militarily insignificant, plays little part in NATO's Mediterranean war plans, which turns around the U.S. Sixth Fleet and its powerful nuclear punch. For public consumption, virtually every Western foreign office took a stiff-upper-lip attitude. So did NATO's General Lauris Norstad (whom De Gaulle dismisses as a military johnny-come-lately...