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Progress in the North. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, the Scandinavians were making substantial progress toward creating their own economic alliance. After two weeks of final and frenetic discussions, representatives of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland emerged with a detailed blueprint for a Nordic Economic Community, dubbed Nordek. The draft agreement must still be ratified by the respective Scandinavian parliaments, and there were still difficult compromises to be worked out -notably on dairy products, meat and fisheries. Even so, the consensus was that surprisingly good progress had been made. Targeted by its drafters to go into operation Jan. 1, 1971, Nordek would...
Europeans have taken even more decisive action. Following discovery of the chemicals in their herring catch, the Swedes ordered a two-year ban on DDT, as well as the related pesticides lindane, aldrin and dieldrin. The Netherlands decided to stop using DDT. So did Denmark. West Germany limits spraying so severely that only 192 tons of the substance were used throughout the country last year. France and Britain are keeping a watch on pesticide levels within their borders. The Russians, too, are concerned, as Premier Aleksei Kosygin indicated when he offered to join with the Swedes in cleaning up what...
...Denmark, Ireland and Norway seek admission in addition to Britain. Meanwhile, Austria, Sweden and Switzerland all want various forms of associate membership. Should all go according to the most optimistic schedules, the Common Market could someday expand into a ten-nation economic entity whose industrial might. would far surpass that of the Soviet Union...
...that would take you a week or two weeks with a jury." In the civil law system in Europe, he said, "they never let one judge do anything. So if one judge in three is defective, which is probably about par for the American system, there are in Denmark or Holland or Sweden two other judges to offset him." - "I am no longer sure that the Fifth Amendment concept, in its present form and as presently applied and interpreted, has all the validity attributed to it. I am talking about requiring a defendant to testify...
Angier Biddle Duke, LL.D., Ambassador to Denmark...