Word: european
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European Solution. As a consequence of Czechoslovakia, NATO headquarters is caught up in a flurry of new studies, new reports, new plans. For all the motion, the immediate changes are likely to be fairly small. The U.S. will probably send back to Germany the 35,000 men it pulled out earlier this year, putting them in place on extended maneuvers beginning this fall...
...horrifying prospect for Western European statesmen, already shaken by the unexpected Soviet crushing of Czechoslovakia. Last week it be came increasingly plain that Czechoslovakia was indeed crushed, that any reports of a compromise in Moscow were a sham, and that all the promises of freedom and reform in the country were to be obliterated by the Soviet occupiers for a long time to come. By that grim process, the Kremlin was altering the context of East-West dealings as well. Though the Soviet leaders insist that the intervention in Czechoslovakia is a domestic matter, it inevitably affects, and chills...
...guest of honor? Leonard Bernstein, who-hard to believe-turned 50. Still youthful in appearance, interests and energy (he now jogs with his 13-year-old son Alexander), Bernstein was starting his 1968-69 season with a five-week European tour. At season's end, he ceases to be the Philharmonic's permanent conductor, and plans to de vote most of his time to writing music; his first big project is a new Broadway production based on Brecht's The Exception and the Rule. By virtue of his achievements with the Philharmonic and as composer, author, pianist...
From time immemorial the European peasant has prayed for plentiful harvests. Yet plenty has not necessarily been good for the Common Market's 11 million farmers. Blessed by good crops and improved farming techniques, they have accumulated huge surpluses of agricultural products, and are swamped by tomatoes, cauliflowers, apples, plums and pears. In Germany alone, the government has had to buy and store some 80,000 tons of surplus butter, which is now known as the Butterberg (butter mountain...
Says an exasperated official of the Bonn Ministry of Agriculture: "The only way to solve the problem is to open a hunting season on cows." The European farm surpluses will keep rising because, as French Minister of Agriculture Robert Boulin puts it, "we are entering into an era of general overproduction." There has been conversation about giving away food surpluses to needy countries. Still, all this has been more talk than action. Meanwhile, the problem of agricultural surpluses is one of the main subjects to be discussed at a Common Market meeting next month...