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...dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed it off to French Ambassador Hervé Alphand, the ambassador made the mistake of remarking that the Astrodome's lattice work roof reminded him of the Eiffel Tower. Sniffed Hofheinz: "The Eiffel Tower is all right, but you can't play ball there...
Speaking to an audience of 450 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Alphand said that "the form given to this alliance fifteen years ago" is no longer adequate because "Europe aspires to assume broader responsibilities for her own defense...
France wants an independent nuclear arsenal, Alphand said, "to deter a potential enemy, in case he decides to blackmail us in exceptional cases when our interests and your should not be exactly the same." He suggested that the French nuclear venture "cannot but interfere with the strategy of our adversaries, and therefore make it more complicated for them...
...Alphand also discussed French policy in what he called "the third world," the smaller countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. "We think," he said, "that the internal quarrels of other people are none of our business...
Turning to France's long-range goals, Alphand predicted that "a day will come when, in agreement with the United States, a settlement between western and eastern Europeans can take place so as to establish a vast system from the Atlantic to the Urals...