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Only three months ago, Ludwig Erhard was firmly maintaining that if Charles de Gaulle insisted on pulling his troops out of the unified NATO command, he could hardly keep 72,000 of them on German soil, no matter how much he wanted to keep a watch on the Rhine. "There can be no throwback to an occupation status," Erhard declared. Then, as De Gaulle's July 1 deadline for France's NATO withdrawal began to creep nearer, Erhard allowed technical experts in Paris to negotiate a "temporary" agreement under which the French troops might stay in Germany...
...Commissioner Goddard's belief that most Americans get all the vitamins and minerals they need from an ordinary, varied diet [July 1] makes me realize he is no nutritionist. He is thinking of the days when the pioneers moved west because their soil was no longer fertile. Today we have made "great strides." We grow our food on depleted soils fertilized with chemicals, sprayed with poisons. We have pasteurized, homogenized, bleached, refined and "enriched": "Enriched" flour is flour from which 25 natural nutrients have been removed during refining; it is "enriched" by replacing one-third the original amount...
...joint fleet in the Pacific. The fleet was part of a comprehensive defense alliance the U.S.S.R. was trying to negotiate with the Chinese. In the months before the proposal on the fleet, the Soviets had made arrangements to establish submarine bases, missile sites, and radar installations on Chinese soil, all to be jointly controlled...
...almost idealistic" American "judgment," he concedes, that favors helping other Asian lands against conquest by "a hostile power." He has no use for the "Chinese sphere of influence" concession advanced by some dovish intellectuals. On the other hand, "we are not compelled to fight for every inch of Asian soil or hazard war each time Chinese influence begins to grow...
What would become of the 72,000 French ground troops in West Germany? Last week Paris and Bonn reached an interim agreement that will permit the French to remain on German soil while a new, non-NATO basis for their presence is negotiated. This week French Premier Georges Pompidou flies to London for talks with Harold Wilson on the possibility of British entry into the Common Market. To pave the way for those discussions, British Defense Minister Denis Healey apologized for intemperate charges (that leaked out of a private meeting) accusing Charles de Gaulle of being "a bad partner...