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Almost as old as NATO itself is the "disarray" that seems to haunt its councils. Yet allied differences are not so much symptoms of any deep-rooted disunity as the result of NATO's military effectiveness. Because they know that they are secure behind the U.S. nuclear shield, few European nations are eager to build up conventional forces for which they see little use. At the same time, as they have grown more powerful and prosperous, Europeans have come to question total U.S. control of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future. Thus dependence breeds mistrust...
...years the U.S. has been accustomed to lead the free world, and in that time Western Europe rose from the ashes behind a shield of U.S. men and money. France itself has received $9.5 billion in outright aid and $1.8 billion in loans since 1945. There have of course been disputes and differences of opinion, but until last week, no direct challenge of U.S. leadership. What the U.S. now faced was a proposal that Europe rally round France to create a third force in the world capable of dealing independently with both the U.S. and Russia. This had been...
...beginnings of the argument went back to 1958, when Canada first agreed to contribute two squadrons of air-breathing Bomarc antiaircraft missiles to a joint North American Air Defense Command. Three and a half years ago, the Canadians also promised to provide eight jet squadrons for the NATO air shield in Europe. But Diefenbaker, fearing the opposition of Canadian ban-the-bombers, could never quite bring himself to accept the nuclear armament designed for the jets and missiles...
...will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel will inflate a pair of winglike spars made of heat-resistant woven-wire cloth. As the wings expand, the cylinder will split, forming a heat shield that will protect the leading edges of the wings. The inflated lifeboat will be an air-and space-worthy paraglider (see diagram...
Medieval society made no attempt to shield its children from sex. Adults commonly carried on sexual relations in front of them and thought their children's own forms of sexual play were enormously amusing. "There were two reasons for this," writes Aries. "In the first place, the child under the age of puberty was believed to be unaware of or indifferent to sex . . . Secondly, the idea did not yet exist that references to sexual matters . . . could soil childish innocence; nobody thought that this innocence really existed." Blackboard Jungle. But toward the close of the 15th century, a new attitude...