Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the General Assembly that the U.N. Congo command was virtually bankrupt, largely because of the refusal of the Soviet Union to contribute, and would have to suspend operations unless someone (a euphemism for the U.S.) anteed up $22 million forthwith.
In Paris last week, parliamentarians from 13 of NATO's 15 member nations* settled down around a giant, A-shaped table for their annual briefing on the problems before the alliance. This year's overriding topic: how to cope with the mounting dissatisfaction of other NATO members with...
At the root of NATO's new nuclear worries is Charles de Gaulle's determination to give France its own atomic striking force. After De Gaulle exploded two of his costly bombs in the Sahara, other NATO powers knew that the time was coming when West Germany-which...
This Way Out. As a way out of this maze, NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad last week outlined a proposal he has been urging for over a year: the creation of a nuclear weapons stockpile to be placed under NATO control and left there so long as the alliance endures...
What Norstad envisions is a pool of U.S.-built nuclear weapons, both land-based and seaborne, which would still be in the custody of U.S. officers (as required by Congress) but which could be fired by NATO's commander subject to the directions of all 15 NATO members rather...