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...often called for a referendum on Greece's membership in the Community. At the same time, Papandreou has expressed opposition to some E.C. export quotas, demanding that Greece be accorded special status within the Community. When he objected to one E.C. regulation on agriculture at the London summit, Belgian Prime Minister Mark Eyskens interrupted him, asking, "Then why don't you just leave...
...receiving what seemed to be a miraculous infusion of capital: its assets ballooned from $25,000 to $140 million in a month's time. The owners of the newly rich Pargesa, it turned out, were the Becker Group Inc., an American subsidiary of Paribas, together with Canadian, Belgian and Swiss interests that had close ties to Paribas. Pargesa quickly moved to buy control of Paribas Suisse. As a result, when the French government completes the nationalization of Paribas, it will gain only a minority holding in the bank's profitable subsidiary. A similar operation succeeded last week...
DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community...
...estate living have lost their appeal, creating a new leisure class: the unlanded gentry. One building boasts an airline owner, three movie stars and a scattering of upper-crust physicians and attorneys. "I know my art collection will be there when I come home," says Alice Linet, 49, a Belgian diamond dealer, who will leave her luxurious Beverly Hills home (with pool) for Wilshire House. Mrs. Lee Abrams, 46, who moved to the Longford from a San Fernando Valley estate, agrees: ''I hate a house. The plumbing is always going out, the roof needs repair, and the gardeners...
...appeared to be the very model of a hardworking, leisure-loving Los Angeles suburbanite. A U.C.L.A.-trained radar engineer, Bell, 61, had put in 29 years with Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis. One of his neighbors there was Polish-born...