Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than 72 hours after he took his office, Vice President Walter Mondale was off on a ten-day 22,000-mile tour that would whisk him to half a dozen European capitals and back across the Arctic icecap to Tokyo. His mission: to promise that the new Administration would work to strengthen economic and military ties with its chief allies. On board Air Force Two was TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. His report...
...programmers at Off-the-Wall have concentrated on obtaining recent and rarely shown works by the best artists working in animation. Several of the short subjects come from the Ottawa International Festival of Animation, "the equivalent of Cannes to the animation world," according to the program notes. Works by European and local Boston-area directors are included. Most of the works run under ten minutes. The shortest, All in a Woman's Day and Success Without College, by two Hampshire College students, are pithy visual epigrams that last not much longer than it takes to blink...
...virtually every capital you will hear a litany of the European Community's grim economic prospects for 1977; inflation that continues at an average 9.5%, industrial production that will drop roughly 3% below last year's output, a trade deficit of $6 billion (it would be a staggering $25 billion if West Germany were excluded) and unemployment figures that will increase all over Western Europe. These depressing statistics tell only part of the real story, which is that a few European states -notably West Germany and the Low Countries-are doing quite well, while others-notably Britain...
...trend within the party apparat. The Communists are still a great potential danger in Western Europe, particularly since the bourgeois parties have no general strategy on how to cope with them. Their role in Western Europe depends on the viability of the Western alliance, led by the Carter Administration. European leaders are confident that if "we" -the alliance-can lick our economic problems and the social tensions that come with them, then the Communist problem will solve itself...
During the Labor government of 1945-51, Eden was the Tory opposition's foreign affairs spokesman. He emphasized the importance of the Anglo-American partnership and a militarily strong Western Europe, including a rearmed West Germany. Eden, though, was cool to West European economic or political integration. In one 1949 speech he declared, "If the U.S. and the British Commonwealth and Empire stand together and work together, there is no world problem they cannot solve. If they fall apart, there is no world problem that can be solved...