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...their 18th birthday, therefore, most West European males face conscription; eligibility begins a year later in Norway, and starts at 20 in Portugal. The length of service varies from a brief nine months in Denmark to two years in Greece and is followed by time in the reserves. Many West Europeans also volunteer for their country's armed forces, of course; of the 495,000 members of West Germany's Bundeswehr, for example, 270,000 are volunteer, and over half of the 590,000 Frenchmen in uniform joined voluntarily...
Under IEA rules, any country that experiences a 7% or more supply shortfall can ask the other member nations to share their own supplies so that the shortfall is held to no more than 7%. But even though some IEA nations, such as West Germany and Denmark, continue to rely on Iranian exports for as much as 10% of their petroleum supplies, sky-high prices and slumping demand for crude have already created a worldwide mini-glut of oil that would offset any loss. Because of surplus supplies, the price of oil in the so-called spot market has declined...
...NATO's members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark. France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom, U.S., West Germany...
Even in Scandinavia, where government control has been pervasive and popular, citizens in recent elections have called for less of it. After 44 years in office, Sweden's Socialists were voted out in 1976, and last year they were again defeated. Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland have all moved to the center in their latest elections...
...first plebiscites on the nuclear issue, the Swedish vote was watched closely in Western Europe. In Denmark, it was believed to have reinforced public sentiment in favor of starting a nuclear program to reduce the country's 95% dependence on imported energy. In Zurich, where a referendum will be held on April 27 concerning a sixth reactor, proponents of the project were encouraged...