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...commander of the 37th Tank Battalion, Abrams rode point in the race from Normandy to the Rhine in a string of command tanks-each of which he named Thunderbolt. He spearheaded the column that relieved the encircled 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Often cut off himself, the cigar-chomping tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army...
...German-U.S. talks in London on the question of Anglo-American forces in West Germany, Wilson's representative argued that Britain's pound and balance-of-payments position were so strained that the government would have to slash its 55,000-man British Army of the Rhine by two-thirds unless the West Germans helped to offset its foreign-exchange costs of $250 million a year. But also last week Wilson jetted to The Hague on his fifth mission to Common Market countries and reiterated a now familiar theme. His argument: the pound has become so stable...
Compromise. Europeans are perplexed because Wilson is talking about reducing Britain's military commitment to the Continent at the same time that he wants to increase the British economic commitment to Europe. In a compromise proposal to keep the Rhine army intact at no damage to Britain's monetary reserves, the U.S. last week suggested that the British go on paying for it, but that Germans promise to invest an equivalent amount in British securities...
...Hardly had Wilson finished annealing to the Germans for more financial support for the 53,000-man British Army of the Rhine than British Defense Secretary Denis Healey released a White Paper calling for large-scale cutbacks in both NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. It was thus no surprise that at week's end Bonn indicated that it will not help pay for the upkeep of the Rhine army-a decision that almost inevitably will bring about a major British pullback...
Saturday night it was just the way the 50 Adams House juniors and their dates had known it would be. The Germans were drunk, singing "Wacht am Rhine." The little people in Rick's cringed silently...