Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe, U.S. diplomats are still trying to promote a multilateral nuclear fleet (MLF) as an alternative to proliferating national forces. But France's Charles de Gaulle seems more adamant than ever against the idea, and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, under intense pressure from left-wingers in his own Labor Party, expressed serious reservations about the whole project. Next week Wilson will be in Washington to talk it over with Johnson...
Economic Dilemmas. Most of the tearing is being done by the party's "Gaullist" wing, headed by venerable ex-Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 88, and beefy ex-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, 49, who favor De Gaulle's vision of a Europe independent of the U.S. in nuclear and other matters. They are opposed by the dominant "Atlanti-cist" wing, led by Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and his Foreign Minister, Gerhard Schroder, who favor the U.S. -proposed multilateral force (MLF) and close as sociation with Washington...
...decor has changed, so has the mood. As the 19th General Assembly prepared to open this week, the euphoria flowing from last year's partial nuclear test-ban treaty was largely gone...
Cancer, said the doctors in 1821. But Frenchmen have always suspected that it was his British captors on St. Helena who slew Napoleon Bonaparte at the age of 51. Now a British scientist, Hamilton Smith, thinks he has proved it: he subjected samples of Napoleon's hair to nuclear bombardment in Britain's Harwell reactors and found arsenic! Only, being an Englishman, he says that his associates believe it was Napoleon's French chamberlain, General Charles-Tristan de Montholon, who poisoned the Emperor. French historians hooted down the theory as so much old lace. The hairs were...
...list of exceptions included machine tools, electrical equipment, trucks, buses and even nuclear reactors-and compared poorly with the U.S. list which totaled only 8% of dutiable imports. Britain named coal, lead and zinc, plastic products and many cotton textiles in a list that covered 5% of its imports. Austria, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland offered to slice all their tariffs in half if other nations reciprocate. And a delegate from Czechoslovakia showed up as the only Communist to offer a number of concessions that would align his country with GATT to a limited extent, thus demonstrating the shifting economic...