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...G.N.P. of the six Common Market nations has grown 52%, to $253 billion, while trade between them has skyrocketed by 238%, to an estimated $23 billion this year. Internal tariffs on agricultural goods have dropped more than 60%; on industrial products, they are down 80%. On July 1, 1968, eighteen months ahead of the schedule set forth in the Treaty of Rome, the last tariffs within the EEC will disappear. Also taking effect will be an agricultural program with common farm prices and supports, plus unified levies on imports from outside the Community...
Kerr, probably sensing Reagan's vulnerability on this point, took advantage of public hostility to the governor by announcing last week that admissions to the university system would be halted temporarily, "until the financial picture is clarified." The chancellor of the eighteen state colleges had done the same thing the week before...
Beehives. Eighteen hours after the Christmas truce ended, the Communists struck in earnest. Their target was a 100-ft.-high hill near Bong Son on the edge of the Central Highlands where a U.S. battery of 155-mm. howitzers and another of 105 mm. had been dug in for a month. Three platoons of the 1st Cavalry were on duty defending the twelve big guns and their crews. Under cover of evening rain, elements of North Viet Nam's 22nd Regiment slithered up the hill, snipping the detonating wires of Claymore mines strung round the camp, and neutralizing trip...
That cost me eighteen pence...
Fifteen or eighteen cortisone shots made the decision...