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...Kohl party chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's elections. After that, to stir support for C.D.U. candidates in upcoming European Parliament elections, a novel buffet of dishes from other European Community nations: smoked salmon from Denmark, Netherlands herring, Italian wine and, Gott im Himmel, the French dish-or dishes-three dancers who pranced about onstage wearing only G strings and nonaligned ostrich feathers. Kohl diplomatically said nothing about the surprise entree. But some other C.D.U.ers did. Harrumphed an anti-Kohlite who clearly recognized breasts and circuses...
...increasing the aid effort, is that the U.S. is still a leader in the field it pioneered. Not so. In the early 1960s the U.S. spent up to .5% of its gross national product on foreign aid but today allocates only .27%. Sweden gives 1.01% of its G.N.P., and Denmark donates .6%. Thirteen nations, including France, Canada, Belgium, Britain, West Germany and Austria give a larger share than the U.S. Says Gilligan: "Last year the people of the U.S. lost more money at the gambling tables in Nevada than we have in our development assistance programs. We spend more money...
DIED. Per Haekkerup, 63, Danish politician and diplomat; of cirrhosis; in Copenhagen. As his nation's Foreign Minister from 1962 to 1966. Haekkerup lobbied for Denmark's admission into the Common Market (achieved in 1973), opposed the Viet Nam War and apartheid in South Africa...
Beginning Jan. 2, the governments of West Germany, France, the Benelux nations and Denmark will start taking steps to ensure that their currencies move up or down, more or less, in unison. In addition, the members created a new form of money, the European Currency Unit, or ecu. For now, at least, the ecu will not be paper money used by the man in the strasse to pay his bills, but simply a bookkeeping device for Europe's central banks to settle debts with each other...
...national teams of East and West Germany, Russia, Canada, Holland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway will compete, plus the American team and club teams that make the qualifying times...