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Officially, it was simply a pomp-and-panoply state visit as Queen Elizabeth of Britain last week paid a five-day call in Brussels on King Baudouin of Belgium. But Brussels is more than just the capital of Belgium these days. With each fresh agreement of the Common Market Six (see WORLD BUSINESS), it becomes more and more the headquarters and repository of the Continent's hopes for unity. Mindful of that, the Queen had some carefully chosen words to say: "Like so many things in life, the desirable is not always immediately attainable, but I join with...
...stand toward the physicians, while the Socialists would like to trim the doctors down to size. Remembering that the last doctors' strike lasted 18 days and ended in a retreat by both sides, Harmel decided to quit before the fighting even began, and submitted his resignation to King Baudouin. That pleased the doctors, who declared that they would not strike if the government resigned. But at week's end the King refused to accept Premier Harmel's resignation, and once again the danger of a doctors' strike was imminent...
When President Joseph Mobutu showed up in Leopoldville's King Baudouin Stadium for his first major public appearance last week, the 30,000 people on hand thought it odd that he was in informal khakis instead of his bemedaled full-dress general's uniform. There was a reason. Mobutu was there to urge his nation to get down to work. For five years, he claimed, politicians had "sacrificed the country for their own interests" and had brought it "hatred, quarrels and corruption." "The Congo no longer produces," he said, "the people no longer work...
Died. Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 89, Bavarian-born widow of King Albert, mother of ex-King Leopold III and grandmother of reigning King Baudouin, long revered for the heroism and charity she displayed in both World Wars and esteemed as one of Europe's leading art patrons, but whose unfortunate espousal of left-wing causes in the last ten years brought embarrassment to the government and ultimately exasperated a long-tolerant public, earning her the derisive label "Red Queen"; of a heart attack; in Stuyvenberg Palace, near Brussels...
...King had changed, and everyone in Brussels noticed it; he seemed sportier, more dashing-but he kept blinking. Tired of looking owlish, Belgium's myopic King Baudouin, 35, had doffed his familiar bottle-bottom glasses after 20 years, got himself fitted for contact lenses. MORE GLAMOUR FOR BAUDOUIN, cheered the Flemish weekly Zondag Morgen. There were no cheers from Treasury officials, who had to figure out what would become of those millions of stamps and 20-franc notes featuring the King's bespectacled old image...