Word: baudouine
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...week on whether to remain in the Common Market. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has continued the Gaullist policy of not participating in NATO's military planning; indeed, he declined to appear at the summit, attending only a state dinner given by Belgian King Baudouin and a closed-door meeting with Ford...
...NATO'S disarray of the past year was at least patched over and that the Atlantic shield was once again in place. "Without the alliance, it is doubtful that the [Soviet-American] détente would have begun," Nixon said as he replied to the greeting of King Baudouin Tuesday evening at Brussels' Melsbroek airport. "And without continuing a strong alliance, it is doubtful if the détente would continue...
...NATO's Secretary General Joseph Luns. The handshake of this genial giant following the signing of the declaration on Atlantic relations rippled all the way up the President's arm and into his chest like a shot of Adrenalin. When Nixon walked from his residence to King Baudouin's for lunch he spied the guards that so impressed him on his last visit that he had special uniforms made for the White House police. There was so much American laughter that Nixon abandoned the scheme. But there must have been some regret lingering in the President...
...with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight, shy, 70-year-old Hirohito and his demure Empress flew on to Paris, where 50 years ago, as Crown Prince, he spent what he remembers as some of the happiest, freest days of his life...
There were six reigning monarchs: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, the Shah of Iran, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, King Baudouin of Belgium, Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg. Charles, Prince of Wales, was seated among other young royalty, including Norway's Crown Prince Harald and Sweden's Crown Prince Carl Gustav. From what was once French Africa came leaders and statesmen from 17 now independent nations, including Senegal's Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who revered De Gaulle...