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German air lanes are crowded not only by private planes and gliders but by the military aircraft of seven air forces: West Germany's own, the U.S., British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Danish. Commercial pilots have charged that fighter planes deliberately use passenger craft as targets for dummy runs, which is like playing chicken at the speed of sound. By refusing to allot more personnel and modern equipment to air traffic control, Bonn is playing a similar game of chicken with passengers' lives...
...point home. In Turkey, Ambassador William Handley told friends: "In this embassy, careers depend on getting opium banned." In drug matters, the U.S. has been receiving close cooperation from Yugoslavia and even Bulgaria, but State Department officials gripe that "it's damned hard to get an Italian or a Belgian even to think about pollution, let alone drugs." In Latin America, only Mexico has been really responsive. Chile has flatly refused to help...
...Europe; of kidney disease; in Brussels. Though he did not live to see the political European union he envisioned, he could take major credit for a new feeling and policy of common concern among Europe's oft-warring nations. Trained in law, Spaak was first elected to the Belgian parliament in 1932 as a Socialist; by 1938 he had become his country's youngest Prime Minister. When Belgium fell to the Nazis in 1940, Spaak fled to London and returned after the war to Belgium to serve twice more as Prime Minister, six times as Foreign Minister. Churchillian...
BELGIUM. As in France, there is a two-tier foreign exchange market that makes speculation in the Belgian franc expensive. Banks cannot increase their lending to nonresidents above the level of last March 9, and there are restrictions on payment of interest on some foreign-owned bank accounts...
Last week, twelve years after the Belgian Congo became independent and embarked on a period of chaos, civil war and primeval savagery that lasted for nearly eight years, TIME Correspondent John Blashill completed a 2,000-mile tour of the sprawling country. His report...