Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss has never been quite frank about his plans for West Germany's defense contribution to NATO. His predecessor, Theodor Blank, promised to field twelve German divisions and 500,000 men by 1960, and commit all of them to NATO. But when Strauss took office last year, he began revising Blank's program and scaling down manpower targets. Last week, in an interview with the military analyst of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...
...falling behind other nations in the commercial development of atomic power? In Washington last week the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy opened its annual hearings on the state of the atom, and promptly heard diametrically opposite answers to the question. Said Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss: "No." Said his fellow AEC commissioner, Thomas Murray...
...Chairman Strauss acknowledged that there have been some delays in the nuclear-power program, but insisted that on the whole progress has been excellent. Strauss predicted that "five, and perhaps six" reactors, using varied methods of converting atomic energy to electricity, will be delivering power before this year's end. Most are AEC pilot models, but one is the big (100,000 kw.) AEC-Duquesne Light Co. reactor at Shippingport, Pa. In all, said Strauss, "at least 18" commercial reactors are under discussion, specific negotiation or construction in the U.S., and U.S. companies have announced plans for building seven...
Taking the stand after Strauss, Murray argued that private utilities cannot justify the investment in nuclear reactors in terms of today's electricity needs. Not only is the estimated reactor cost high, but actual construction costs have been running 50% and even 100% above original estimates. The result: many proposed reactor plans have not gone beyond the announcement stage. As a sample of how fast the rest of the world is moving, Murray pointed to EURATOM (the six-nation European Atomic Community-see FOREIGN NEWS), which recently set its 1963 reactor objective at 3,000,000 kw. (equal...
...Bonn, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who has pledged to field three of seven promised NATO divisions this summer, last week showed off the new German uniforms, almost identical with the army and Luftwaffe uniforms of World War II .The German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...