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...negotiating to sell a $118 million reactor to Spain, has offered to pay a quarter of the cost of it, and in return will get a quarter of the power that it produces. Westinghouse invaded heavily protected French territory, got the job of building the reactor for a Franco-Belgian plant in the Ardennes by promising to subcontract much of the work to local firms. In order to profit from the German market, Westinghouse has also licensed Siemens to use its reactor patents; G.E. has closed a similar deal with Germany's A.E.G...
...newcomers from Europe. British railway workers, fired by the Kenya government at the demand of its labor unions, were back on their jobs a year later at much higher pay; too many trains had been going off the tracks. In the Congo's fertile Kivu region, deserted Belgian farmlands have been snapped up by eager Italians who are now making money hand over fist. Attracted by high salaries and a booming, open economy, the French population of the Ivory Coast has doubled in the past five years...
Actually, individual whites have never held much land in West Africa, hence that region has been spared the embittered struggles between black and white that have cropped up in the cooler, more habitable reaches of the east. Even in the bloody Congo, Belgians blame themselves for much of the chaos and exonerate the Congolese for the slaughters that followed independence on the grounds that it was nothing more than tribal ebullience-long restrained by Belgian rule-expressing itself at the agitation of Communists...
...ever, and there is no sign of their withdrawal now or in the foreseeable future. Living standards for whites have inevitably progressed with the jet and transistor age: fresh newspapers and delicacies from Europe abound in African cities; Belgian pleasure craft swarm on the Congo River of a weekend; a few theaters in each capital allow whites to keep at least some touch with European culture...
...presided over the Brussels meeting in place of ailing Amintore Fanfani, Italy's Foreign Minister. After quietly sounding out each delegate, Colombo dramatically produced a proposal while the ministers, fortified with postprandial coffee and cigars, talked late into the night in a secluded forest home outside the Belgian capital. Thanks to their agreement, said EEC Commission President Walter Hallstein, "the Community is alive." The sole French reaction in public: Foreign Minister Couve de Murville's cool and correct acknowledgement that the invitation to rejoin the EEC meetings had been received...