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...cricket bats, polo sticks and tea, Britain and the European Common Market reached full accord last week. Such essential adjuncts to the British way of life will continue to be imported duty-free from India and Ceylon if Britain joins the Market. Despite such progress, the protracted negotiations for British admission came close to foundering over the pivotal issue of food prices...
...what negotiations are for," he shrugged. "We have been expecting difficulties to arise, and they have." But in a final 22-hour session aimed at breaking the stalemate, Heath's team failed to win the clear-cut safeguards it sought. With no hope of obtaining an overall accord in time for the Commonwealth conference in London next month, Britain and the Six adjourned the talks, agreed to try again in October...
...week thought they detected the faintest softening in Peking's tone. Perhaps it was just a lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech to the negotiators of the Laos accord, Peking's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, 61, sounded almost benign. After some standard bluster, the tough veteran of the civil war said: "We have, after all, broken a link in the chain of tension in Southeast Asia, and we should enlarge this breakthrough." Chen even found a reasonably...
...F.L.N. side, the spokesman was Dr. Chawki Mostefai, 42, the general delegate of the F.L.N. to the Algerian Provisional Executive, which will superintend the July 1 referendum on the country's independence. Dr. Mostefai also found himself continually sandbagged by more relentless Moslem colleagues. When the accord was published, promising 1) amnesty for S.A.O. killers, and 2) enlistment of Europeans in the Force Locale, the new Algerian police, there was vigorous dissent from F.L.N. headquarters in Tunis. Vice Premier Mohammed ben Bella was against any deal with the S.A.O. Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda&3151;engaged in a private power struggle...
Panicky Exodus. Despite the ringing words, the F.L.N. refusal to add specific guarantees to the Evian accord was discouraging to European liberals and non-F.L.N. Moslems. It enraged the S.A.O., whose transmitter broke into a regular...