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...vote last week may carry influence far beyond its borders. Norway will have a referendum in September. Its farmers and fishermen feel sufficiently threatened by Common Market competition that recent polls show a majority against membership-though the Norwegian Storting, or Parliament, will make the final decision. Denmark will hold a binding referendum in October; polls show 48% of the population favoring entry, only 28% opposed, and 24% undecided. The ringing yes from Ireland can only hearten pro-Market politicians in both countries...
...Europe" submitted to French voters was as flat as an overcooked souffle: "Do you approve within the new perspectives opening in Europe the proposed law submitted to the French people by the President of the Republic, authorizing the ratification of the treaty relative to the entry of Great Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway into the European community...
...industries must be launched, ranging from clothing and pharmaceuticals to steel tubing and petrochemicals. To the delight of European suppliers, Libya has ordered $180 million worth of cement, shoe and glass factories from West Germany, a $50 million power plant from France, and other major equipment from Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Gaddafi is unimpressed by evidence that the highly automated plants will provide fewer than 5,000 new jobs-the most exacting of which will undoubtedly have to be filled by the army of technicians he has imported from Egypt-and that many of the made-in-Libya products will...
...week the French President unexpectedly-and presumably unintentionally-threw a grenade in Britain's path to Brussels. At the end of an Elysée Palace press conference, Pompidou announced that he would call a national referendum in late April on the treaties admitting Britain, Ireland, Norway and Denmark to the six-nation Market. The French people, he explained, should be allowed to "express their opinion directly on this new policy of a new Europe...
...have been Edward Heath's big moment. Britain's Prime Minister and the Premiers of Ireland, Denmark and Norway had just arrived in Brussels' Palais d'Egmont to sign a Treaty of Accession to the European Common Market, thus officially marking the end of 18 months of tough negotiations. The occasion, the next-to-last formal step before the four nations become full members of the Common Market next Jan. 1-if all goes according to schedule-was being carried live on Eurovision. Then, just as Heath walked through the Palais doors, a blonde woman stepped...