Word: anker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation is one of Europe's hottest political issues, the Common Market in the long run will be judged more by its success in improving the quality of European life. Underlining the need to "appeal to the imagination of future generations," as Denmark's new Prime Minister, Anker Jörgensen, put it, members agreed on the need to delve into social issues that the Market has not faced before: problems of employment, consumer protection, the environment, the role of multinational corporations, and the treatment of Western Europe's approximately 6,000,000 "guest workers." Besides...
...country's leadership. Jens Otto Krag, 58, had campaigned long and arduously for a yes vote, and now chose the moment of victory as "a good occasion to step down." In his place as Prime Minister, the Social Democratic Party confirmed Krag's personal choice: Anker Henrik Jorgensen, 50, plump and goateed president of the 250,000-member Unskilled Workers' Union, Denmark's largest...
...that measure, Anker Jorgensen enjoys abundant support. Jorgensen was orphaned at the age of four and grew up in poverty. He worked as a messenger boy and as an unskilled shipyard and factory worker; later he became a spokesman for warehouse workers and a union leader. A member of the Folketing since 1964, Jorgensen has never held a Cabinet post. But his proletarian background should calm the worries of Danish workers and Socialists over the EEC vote, which he supported...