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...feared that tiny Denmark (pop. 5,000,000) would have too little influence on the EEC bureaucracy. Krag would have faced a difficult task in healing his party's wounds. As a graduate in economics, he has earned the respect but never the full trust that the average Danish workingman reserves for a fellow worker...
...worked as a messenger boy and as an unskilled shipyard and factory worker; later he became a spokesman for warehouse workers and a union leader. A member of the Folketing since 1964, Jorgensen has never held a Cabinet post. But his proletarian background should calm the worries of Danish workers and Socialists over the EEC vote, which he supported...
Though feared by Oslo's Labor government and predicted by numerous opinion polls, the referendum's results shocked Common Market capitals. In Denmark, Premier Jens Otto Krag, who had warned his people that a negative Danish vote could mean devaluation, unemployment and a reduction of welfare services, was forced to suspend foreign exchange transactions. In London, antiMarket forces claimed that Norway's rejection would reduce Britain's influence on EEC decisions and demanded a referendum for Britons, even though Parliament has already assented to EEC entry. In Brussels, where news of the vote was received...
Despite Norway's decision, the magnetism exerted by the EEC remains strong. Some future Norwegian government may bid for membership again. Much depends on Denmark's referendum this week. Danish Premier Krag was prepared for any eventuality. On the day following the EEC vote, Krag must deliver the annual state-of-the-nation speech. This year Krag has prepared two speeches, one assuming Danish rejection of the EEC, the other in case his countrymen vote yes to Europe...
...racism is particularly ironic and painful in an island culture with a history of near complete and happy integration going back to the arrival of Danish colonizers nearly 300 years ago. Never in memory was it a problem for blacks and whites to sit at the same restaurant table or drink at the same bar. But St. Croix's first all-white bar has sprung up as a sanctuary in Christiansted. Architect Frank Prince recently took his wife to a place they used to go to drink and was immediately accosted by a black friend who said: "Frank...