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Today's difficulties have led many West Europeans to hark back with nostalgia to the '50s and '60s, the golden age of the dream of Continental unity. By 1957, with the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Economic Community had come into existence. The agreement committed the original six members--France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy--gradually to eliminate trade barriers and harmonize economic policies...
...first the Community's common market worked astonishingly well. During the 1960s, unemployment among the Community countries averaged only 2.1%, vs. 4.7% in the U.S.; economic growth and increases in industrial production outpaced the U.S. averages. Says Economist Ergas: "In the '60s we knew precisely what we wanted: cars, washing machines, fridges. It was easy to handle...
Curiously, today's protesters sometimes seem more reminiscent of the '50s than the '60s; they tend to have short hair and occasionally wear ties; they are less radical and more disciplined than their predecessors. While few in number, they may be this generation's pioneers of social conscience. Notes Joseph Bristol, a 19- year-old Yale sophomore, one of six students arrested for bursting into a CIA interview: "It seems to be the birth of a movement. The obliviousness of college students is starting...
...threat of nuclear war and proposed federal budget cuts in education. Of these, South Africa has engendered the widest protest, a movement inspired by the continuing arrests of demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. Among the campuses, Berkeley and Columbia, two seed-beds of '60s radicalism, are once again leading the march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered early last week when police arrested 159 protesters who had been on a weeklong sleep...
Today's protesters take a stance on the Establishment that is not so much anti as accommodating. At the University of Colorado, students consulted with school officials and campus police before demonstrating against the CIA. Notes Jill Hanauer, Colorado's student body president: "Unlike in the '60s, students today are more concerned about their futures. There is more willingness to work within the system...