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Condonation. After meeting with Mrs. Gandhi last week, Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens stated that he was convinced India would not initiate a war. In Vienna, Mrs. Gandhi took time out from political discussions to accept a check for refugee children, and in London, where she conferred with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, she urged Britain to exert economic pressure against Pakistan...
...Amsterdam, Dutch police seized a planeload of Czech-made arms flown from Prague and allegedly intended for the outlawed Irish Republican Army to use in its campaign to oust British troops from Ulster. They also arrested the Belgian pilot of the charter aircraft and an American who was charged with importing arms without a license...
During half-time, Radcliffe's Belgian coach. Danny the Red, questioned referees on their frequent penalty calls. Officials responded with noticeably less use of the whistle during the second half...
...they note, part of the dollar outflow was caused by U.S. inflation, which made it more profitable for American businessmen and bankers to invest in European projects than in opportunities at home. "Nixon's campaign is not so much economic as patriotic," says the chairman of a large Belgian bank. "Patriotism and clarity of thought are almost always incompatible...
Wider Bands. To stem the dollar inflows, Switzerland's central bank ordered an emergency ten-day delay in the delivery of francs purchased with dollars. The hope is that speculators will be unwilling to tie up their money for that long. French and Belgian central bankers have recently ordered commercial members to turn down foreign deposits that appeared to be speculative -a job requiring detective work that is much easier to perform in the clubby world of European bankers than it would be in the U.S. The move could lead to a much wider "two-tier" exchange system, with...