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...West Europeans to hark back with nostalgia to the '50s and '60s, the golden age of the dream of Continental unity. By 1957, with the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the European Economic Community had come into existence. The agreement committed the original six members--France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy--gradually to eliminate trade barriers and harmonize economic policies...
...veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated military commands and closed down U.S. military facilities in France; NATO moved its headquarters from Paris to Belgium...
...largely ceremonial duties with intelligence, charm and a lack of pomp. During World War II, her radio broadcasts from exile in Great Britain did much to build morale. Afterward, she helped guide her tiny principality (998 sq. mi., pop. 365,000), wedged between West Germany, France and Belgium, to high living standards, enlightened social policies and founding membership in the European Community...
...BELGIUM Another Soccer-Riot Victim...
...would be the only one of its type America ever built or used, uranium being that much more difficult to obtain than plutonium. One of the spurs to the American atom bomb effort had been a report in 1943 that Hitler had ordered uranium shipped out of mines in Belgium. It was also taken for granted that the gun-assembly method--one piece of purified uranium (uranium-235) fired into another at terrific speed--would work, so the Hiroshima bomb was never tested till the morning it was dropped...