Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unrestricted nationalism in order to be, and to feel, strong. Admittedly, he has made France feel stronger than it has in decades. Only through a loose aggregation of such sovereign nations, he says, can the true Europe come about. Moreover, only by pulling away from the Atlantic Community can Western Europe hope to woo Eastern Europe-a debatable proposition, because it is just possible that the Eastern countries might trust an association including the U.S. more than one in which they would be alone with Germany and France...
...correct enough when he asserts that NATO is essentially an American command. The NATO "sword" remains the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The NATO shield is the 27 divisions, six of them American, twelve West German, that are assigned for integrated use in the event of a Soviet land attack on Western Europe. Many of NATO's divisions, including German ones, are equipped with tactical nuclear weapons-but in all cases the warheads remain under U.S. control...
...role of serfs to the Alliance's nuclear knights, the resulting bitterness will lead to a new outburst of German nationalism. The West Germans know that for the foreseeable future they cannot have nuclear weapons of their own. Germany with the Bomb is a prospect that alarms Western Europe nearly as much as it does Russia and the satellites. What Erhard does want is a greater share in both nuclear planning and in the control over the "hardware" of the tactical weapons on German soil. De Gaulle does not want the Germans to have even that much. "The Germans...
Hail Farmer! Indians blame it on scanty rain during last summer's monsoons. Maharashtra state in western In dia reports crop losses as high as 75%. Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and the Punjab, normally big grain-producing states, see serious trouble ahead. Predictably, the shortages have sent grain prices up 30% in the past few months. To curb profiteering by speculators, the government is buying grain direct from farmers and selling it in government-run "fair-price shops" in the cities. Yet this plan has a drawback, for it attracts peasants from the countryside to the cities in search...
Charles Bluhdorn, 39, Manhattan-based chairman of Gulf & Western Industries, a widely diversified company specializing in auto parts, began as a penniless immigrant. Now he is worth more than $15 million...