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...down: "The Fords will John." do anything to take models away from There is little doubt that Eileen and Jerry Ford will maintain their sovereignty in the model wars. But Casablancas al ways has a fallback. He is married to his first model, Jeanette Christjansen, a for mer Miss Denmark, who at 32 can still match cheek and thigh with some of bodydom's finest...
...West German mark, the Swiss franc, and the British pound has only widened the price gap. In Munich, a cup of coffee now sells for the dollar equivalent of $1.50; designer jeans in London go for $65 or more a pair; gasoline costs $3.23 per gal. in Denmark...
...world's most comprehensive network of cost of living adjustments, and that nation has soared into triple-digit inflation (see box). Brazil, which has been heavily indexed since 1964, is now backing away from the system in the face of 100% inflation. Last January the governments of both Denmark and The Netherlands refused to grant workers and welfare recipients the expected automatic increases in salaries and benefits. Says one top European Community economist: "Indexing is the fool's gold of modern economics. Nothing breeds inflation as much as cost of living benefits...
...already making political patsies of some importing nations. Saudi Arabia is now using its muscle to try to buy U.S. offensive weaponry for its F-15 fighters. Denmark last month signed a contract for 20,000 bbl. of oil per day that forbids Danes to take any action that would "bring the kingdom of Saudi Arabia or any of its departments into disrepute." This could mean a Saudi veto power over something like showing the controversial film Death of a Princess, or even over Danish foreign policy...
...Doge's Palace, the Europeans spent several hours deliberating their Middle East policy statement. Giscard, who had long been out in front in favor of Palestinian self-determination, wanted the statement to call for outright "participation" of the P.L.O. in negotiations. In the end, faced with opposition from Denmark and The Netherlands and, most of all, by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, he conceded that such wording was premature; the conferees agreed to use the less provocative term "associate...