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...Gaulle's conditions. But NATO, which had felt a little unwanted all winter, saw some other friendly signs. Turkey has agreed to accept U.S. Jupiter IRBMs, and negotiations are under way to install missiles in Belgium and The Netherlands. Half a dozen NATO nations, including Canada, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and West Germany, have announced plans to increase their defense spending...
Died. Hans Christian Hansen, 53, Premier of Denmark since 1955, a moderate socialist who as Finance Minister (1945, 1947-50) restored Denmark's currency and moved the country to a speedy postwar recovery, always resolutely followed a middle way: he rebuffed Russian threats aimed at dislodging Denmark from the West, but he also refused to allow U.S. bases in Denmark (though he fervidly promoted the Western alliance, helped lead his nation triumphantly into NATO); of cancer; in Copenhagen...
...other country grants cooperatives such tax advantages: France allows no corporate tax exemption for profits paid to members; Belgium disallows allocations; Canada and Denmark levy regular corporate taxes on a minimum of 3% to 6% of capital invested. Even on the mild Denmark plan, U.S. co-ops would pay some $90 million to the support of the U.S. Government. To many tax experts it is high time they paid. Says former Under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill: "The exemption may have been necessary in the infancy of cooperatives. Now that cooperatives have come of age, it is quite unnecessary...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). On-the-spot films of the Danish underground at work during World War II, including an interview with Captain Christian Kisling, last leader of Denmark's secret saboteurs...
...strength, many a European nation felt confident enough to lower some of its trade barriers and chop away red tape. The Common Market (West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) in its first year was such a resounding success that Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Denmark formed their own Outer Seven trading area to enjoy the benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen who are enthusiastic about...