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The E.F.T.A. meeting reflected a new British initiative to ward bridging the widening rift, a new effort to turn the nation's face once again toward the Continent. It was particularly surprising because Harold Wilson's Labor Party has always looked on Europe with a suspicious eye. When...
Fully aware that probably half his own Cabinet opposes tight ties to Europe, Wilson has carefully avoided taking a public position pro or con. And what steps he has taken have not been in terms of lofty morals and principles-the approach of his Tory predecessors. "Of course he is...
The Continent uses the metric system, and adult Britons sometimes learn this by struggling futilely to adjust nuts scaled in centimeters on their stalled Volkswagens by using British wrenches that are built on inches. But help is on the way: the British government last week announced that over the next...
Four months ago, a significant new element entered African politics. Leaders of the moderate French-speaking nations, meeting in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, formed the 14-member Organisation Commune Africaine et Malgache-the largest single bloc of nations in Africa. Built around the thriving Western-oriented economy of the...
Of all the problems that face U.S. companies setting up shop in Europe, one of the most perplexing is how to deal with European labor. The workers generally welcome American firms for the good working conditions and higher pay that they offer, but U.S. executives soon find that it takes...