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Before retiring as NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Lauris Norstad set out in November to pay his adieus to Europe's statesmen. The farewell was premature, for President Kennedy asked him to stay on temporarily when the Cuban crisis exploded...
Every European statesman shared Fan-fani's hope that NATO can stay completely out of the Cuban crisis. But NATO's commander, General Lauris Norstad, who retires from the post this week after six years, put all his units in a state of "awareness," a limited alert that will speed full-scale mobilization if it becomes necessary...
...passing French photographer did a double take. There, dressed in checkered sport coat and dark slacks, and looking unfamiliar out of his Air Force blue, sat NATO's retiring Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lauris Norstad, 55, taking his ease at a small café in tiny Marnes-la-Coquette near his French headquarters for twelve years. The youthful-looking general, who is quitting as of Nov. 1 due partly to a heart condition, has been a military nomad so long that he has no home of his own. He has not decided what to do-after the first...
Fitting Choice. Norstad's successor as Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe will be the Army's General Lyman (Lem) Lemnitzer, 62, since 1960 chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was a fitting choice: Lemnitzer was one of the drafters of the NATO treaty, later helped parcel out arms to U.S. Allies as first di rector of the Office of Military Assistance in 1949. Though France's crusty President Charles de Gaulle growled "Je ne le con-nais pas" when he heard of Lemnitzer's selection, there is little doubt that...
...reason for shipping Lem Lemnitzer off to Europe. After last year's fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the President hankered to get Lemnitzer out as head of the Joint Chiefs. Says one ranking Pentagon official: "The President just doesn't find Lemnitzer responsive to his needs." Norstad's resignation gave the President his long-awaited chance to install as the top U.S. man in uniform a tough soldier and incisive military thinker: Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 60, whom Kennedy brought out of retirement after the Cuban disaster to become his personal military adviser...