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BELGIUM offers the American investor an outlook that is "excellent-perhaps the best in the Common Market." The Belgian government "actively solicits U.S. investments which will meet the Belgian need for more technical know-how." Foreign investors are offered a series of incentives, including the lowest corporate taxes in the Common Market. Belgium especially wants the U.S. to bring in electronics, precision op-ticals, nonferrous metal and chemical businesses...
...Singing Nun. Soeur Sourire-Sister Smile-was what she called her self, that serene Belgian nun who two years ago sang the affectedly unaffected song, Dominique, that made her an Ed Sullivan celebrity and brought windfall wealth to her Dominican community...
After these early triumphs, Harte went on writing for another 30 years, mostly abroad, where he had gone after wangling a post in the U.S. consular service. He formed a menage a trois with a Belgian couple in London, dictating his diary to his host's wife and patting the heads of her nine children. Finally discharged from the consular service for "inattention to duty," he lived on with the Belgian widow, under sentence of death from cancer of the throat. In 1902, he died at 65 in the best Western tradition, with his boots on and almost broke...
...demand their innings, arguing that they had long been an oppressed majority (5,250,000 to 4,000,000). In 1962, the Flemish succeeded in legislating a line across the country running from just north of Liege across just south of Brussels to a point on the French-Belgian border. The language north of the line (except in Brussels, which is officially bilingual) is officially Flemish; to the south, it is French...
When the government finally got back to the doctors' problems, it found itself terribly divided. Ever since it came to office six months ago, after one of the longest Cabinet crises (65 days) in Belgian history, the coalition of 15 Christian Socialists and twelve Socialists has been unable to agree on how to deal with the doctors. Harmel's Christian Socialists favor a lenient stand toward the physicians, while the Socialists would like to trim the doctors down to size. Remembering that the last doctors' strike lasted 18 days and ended in a retreat by both sides...