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...consortium may yet be split by Mirage-maker Marcel Dassault's offer of a discount to Belgium and The Netherlands if both countries buy the French fighter. Earlier versions of the Mirage make up at least half of Belgium's fighter fleet. The Belgian Socialist Party supports the French plane because a Dassault plant in that country employs more than 80 workers. The Dutch will make no official decision until after the congress of the Dutch Socialist Party convenes this week...
Korngold took his plot from a popular romance by a minor Belgian writer named Georges Rodenbach. Korngold knew an unusual story when he saw it. The hero, Paul (Tenor John Alexander), lives sorrowfully in Bruges, with the memory of his dead wife Marie, her portrait and a long switch of her hair. Into his life comes Marietta, a saucy dancer who resembles Marie. In a long dream sequence, Paul woos Marietta. But when she teases him about the dead woman's hold on him, he strangles her with Marie's hair. He awakens cleansed of his obsession, free...
...industry during the past decade by manufacturing arms under license; for example, it has built more than 100 of the French AMX-13 tanks. The Argentines are currently trying to interest South Africa and Bolivia in the Pucara, an Argentine-designed counterinsurgency plane made with French, British, Swiss and Belgian components...
Ever the pragmatist, Giscard knew that he was isolated, and he accepted a Belgian-Italian compromise. While it gave Wilson essentially what he wanted, the compromise was described in opaque bureaucratese that cleverly disguised its real meaning. According to the protocol, the EEC will "create a correcting mechanism that could prevent during the period of convergence of the economies of the member states the possible development of situations unacceptable for a member state." Translation: if a country's economy goes sour, its budget contribution may be reduced. That ambiguous phraseology protected delicate French sensibilities but, at the same time...
...throne of Syldavia, back into history to recall the voyages of Haddock's pirate ancestor Red Rackham on the ship Unicorn, and, finally, down to the bottom of the Caribbean in a sharklike submarine after Rackham's treasure. Hergé, the nom de plume of a Belgian genius named Georges Remi, who has had Gallic readers in thrall for more than 40 years, fills his small frames with marvelous detail. If he draws a 1955 Peugeot 403 or the old Geneva Airport, everything is exactly right. Occasionally he breaks out into a full-page picture recreating such things...