Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near Giessen in Hesse, the first West German battalions equipped with Honest John missiles were in training last week, one impressive indication that the slow-starting Bundeswehr is at last getting going. A new urgency in the planning suggests that dynamic Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss (now on an inspection tour of the U.S.) is well aware that any summit agreement to freeze armaments in central Europe would leave West Germany in the cold...
...West Germany is scheduled to have the West's toughest and most modern fighting force in Europe. The 350,000-man Bundeswehr will include a twelve-division army, a small navy, and a 1,300-plane air force built around the speedy (Mach 2) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter...
...days are long past when German opinion was hostile to remilitarization: according to a poll, 73% of West Germans favor a German share in Europe's defense. Also disappearing are some of the limitations on German armament manufacturing...
...West Germany is still forbidden by treaty to produce ABC weapons (atomic, bacteriological and chemical warfare). But restrictions are being relaxed to permit German-made short-range antitank rockets. Naval training vessels are no longer limited to 3,000 tons. Germans may soon be allowed to manufacture antiaircraft rockets as well...
...Tito divided his forces, left Dame Margot weeping aboard Nola as he and Elaine churned off over the horizon. When the Guard's launches appeared, Margot led them away from Elaine, then scooted back to Panama City. Tito went ashore close to his family farm, 75 miles west of the capital...