Word: continente
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Léger first thought of working in Africa in 1960, when he came across a newspaper story about conditions of life in the leper colonies. Three years later, between sessions of Vatican II, he spent a month touring the continent. "Africa was a revelation to me," he recalled. "All...
All in all, the Eurodollar amounts to a new and highly controversial form of international currency. Last week in Strasbourg, Vice President Raymond Barre of the Common Market warned the European Parliament that Eurodollars have become "one of our continent's top-priority problems."
Foreign policy questions were not paramount in De Gaulle's defeat. Obviously, though, not even the strongest successor will have the stature at home or abroad to perpetuate the haughty independence that was De Gaulle's personal panache. French policy on the Common Market and defense may change...
While that cannot happen overnight, Western Europe may finally be able to cooperate in taking over much of its own defense-thus shouldering more of the huge military burden that the U.S. has carried since the cold war began. "The shape of Europe's future is essentially the business...
SINCE the monetary crisis of last fall, the main prop under the French franc has been the stubborn pride of Charles de Gaulle. Now, without his formidable non, talk of devaluation of the Continent's weakest currency has assumed a new tone of inevitability. Even the West Germans seem...