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Premiers and Foreign Ministers forthwith signed a treaty that formalized the steps already progressively taken, and the Benelux Economic Union, the world's fourth largest foreign trader, was officially born. "There is no longer any doubt that we will stay united," declared Belgium's Premier Achille Van Acker. As a pilot plant for the European Common Market, in which the three small nations are joined with France, West Germany and Italy, Benelux augured well...
...PERRY M. ACKER Seattle...
...students in Brussels' streets, then a one-day "strike" of 900,000 Catholic pupils throughout the country. Theo Lefevre, president of the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, next called for a "peaceful and dignified" mass demonstration in the capital at week's end. Alarmed, Socialist Premier Achille van Acker formally banned the demonstration, ordered the railroads to cancel 100 special trains chartered to bring Catholics to the capital. The Catholics simply turned to ordinary trains, cars, buses, or took off on foot, and for a traffic-clogging 24 hours streamed into Brussels by the thousands. On schedule, they converged...
After four years of rule by the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, Belgium last week got a new government, headed by moderate Socialist Achille van Acker, 56, a stubby, ever-smiling ex-basketworker who has been Premier twice before. Presiding over a coalition of Socialists and free-enterprising Liberals, Premier van Acker will control in votes in the 212-seat Chamber of Representatives. The Social Christian Party, still Belgium's biggest despite its electoral losses, will have 95 seats. The Communists, who had seven seats before, are down to four. Europe-minded Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, who could have been...
...center, the Wildcats will start 22-year-old Bill Acker, who returned to the team this season after two years of Army service. Acker is an adequate offensive player; he is highly praised for his defensive work as a linebacker...