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Postwar prosperity has enabled Western Europe to catch up with the U.S. standard of living in such basic human needs as food and clothing. When it comes to housing, though, most of the Continent still lags decades behind. New
Beyond any Common Market compromise, a basic conflict will remain. On one side are the federalists-or "Federasts," as the more Utopian advocates of the cause are sometimes called-who feel that no single European nation can ever again play the Great Power, that the only true power on the...
A Blow from Business. Most of all, the candidates hammered at De Gaulle's obstruction of European unity and his intransigence on the Common Market, the wellspring of the Continent's prosperity. Said Moderate Lecanuet, whose campaign star is rising fastest: "French initiatives have almost destroyed the Common...
Cryptic as that utterance was (and it committed France to nothing), it was a well-timed political gesture. Predictably, it sent a glow across both the country and the Continent. Behind the maneuver lay an uncomfortable fact: with the Dec. 5 voting just around the corner, De Gaulle's...
Perched on the continent's northeast shoulder, British Guiana has a lot going for it: major bauxite deposits, rich timberlands, a benign, well-watered climate for rice and sugar cane. Yet until a year ago, it was all London could do to maintain law and order, let alone grant...