Word: panzers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...request for secrecy was understandable, for Crepin's successor as NATO's top operational commander was a former German panzer officer, General Johann Adolf Count von Kielmansegg, 59. Equally understandable was German reluctance to overplay the fact that Bonn's 400,000-man Bundeswehr looms even larger than before in the alliance's military structure...
...have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. And your neat moustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer...
Died. Sepp Dietrich, 73, prewar head of Hitler's SS bodyguard and general in command of the Sixth Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge, who on Dec. 17, 1944, ordered the massacre of 86 U.S. prisoners in Malmédy, Belgium; of a heart attack; near Stuttgart...
...Arab world was torrential in its outrage. All but three of the 13 Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia and Libya) broke diplomatic ties with Bonn, and Egypt's Nasser threatened the ultimate retaliatory blow: recognition of East Germany. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard hastily suspended the shipments and vowed never to panzer to Israel again. Last week the U.S. confirmed that it had picked up the tank deal with Israel where Bonn had left off. This time the flow of Arab abuse that followed could have been dammed by a Dutchman's finger. Reason: the U.S. coolly pointed out that...
Died. Major General John F. C. Fuller, 87, British military historian, a World War I tankman who fought in vain to sell his colleagues on panzer-style tactics, went into waspish retirement in 1933, and at various times embraced fascism, condemned Allied air raids in World War II, and sneered that Ike was "not a highly educated soldier," though he remained highly regarded for such studies as his On Future Warfare; of pneumonia; in Falmouth, England...