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...tiles this year by 18%, to $853 million. Purchases of leisure goods-German toys, Japanese baseball gloves, French musical instruments and the like-have risen 20%, to $187 million. Electrical apparatus, notably Japanese transistor radios and TV sets, are up 39%, to $429 million. Among other gainers: Danish cheese, Swedish cars, Brazilian galoshes, Scotch whisky...
...other delegates, even moved from his seat as conference chairman to intervene vigorously in the debate. The Common Market's crisis, argued Haekkerup, could lead to a major reshuffle that would produce closer economic and political ties throughout Europe-and EFTA should nudge things along. Reason for the Danish push: though EFTA as a whole runs a chronic trade deficit with the Common Market, the problem is particularly nettlesome for Denmark, which depends on West Germany as a major market for its farm produce. Since the creation of the Common Market, that outlet has shriveled...
Other times the mistranslations are on purpose. In Moslem Kuwait, government censors changed the villain's order to: "Give me a glass of milk." Kissing scenes are also deleted outright in Kuwait, limited to a wham-bam five seconds in Lebanon. At the same time, a Danish programmer complains that "American shows are too Victorian in their morals...
...profit figures [Sept. 3], we should point out for the record that S.A.S. is not exclusively Swedish and that we have not been a party to the air union discussions among certain other European carriers. S.A.S. is the result of a 20-year-old merger of the interests of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish airlines...
...Tribute paid by the English to buy off Danish invaders in the 10th century. Kipling's moral: "The end of that game is oppression and shame,/ And the nation that plays it is lost...