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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle began by withdrawing much of his Mediterranean fleet from NATO control. Then he refused NATO permission to stockpile U.S.-controlled atomic weapons in France. And for the past year he has obdurately blocked the plans for integrated air defense of Europe advocated by NATO's European commander, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad...
...first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past the Defense Ministry in a five-hour parade celebrating Kassem's recovery. Obviously much more wary of assassination than before, Kassem kept well away from the crowds as he appeared briefly on a platform to answer cheers. But if he needed reassurance that non-Communist support for him exists...
...pinch is that from this position of strength the military demands disproportionately costly and often unsuitable tools for the job. Brazil has spent $2 billion on its armed forces in the past six years v. $1.6 billion for all public works and development programs. The refurbished carrier Minas Gerais (once H.M.S. Vengeance) will cost $36 million, enough to pave 3,900 miles of highway-and Brazil has no naval air arm to put aboard her. Argentina has spent $1 billion on defense since 1954. "Every time Ecuador buys armaments," notes Peruvian Foreign Minister Raul Porras, "we buy as much...
...root of the tension between the Air Force and the colleges, said President Millett, is a continuing uncertainty over the mission of the A.F.R.O.T.C. program. Over the past 15 years, the Air Force has shifted the goal from training men to serve for short terms in reserve units to recruiting and educating active-duty officers on a long-term career basis. This has been done, charged Millett, without the Air Force's defining a new mission for its college R.O.T.C. units. Said he: "It is not unfair to say that the administrations of many colleges and universities sense...
...hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend low to pass through the tiny door called The Needle...