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Especially galling to Bonn is French opposition to a reform of the Market's Common Agricultural Policy. Already West German payments to the agricultural fund, mostly used to subsidize French farmers, exceed $1 billion annually. "The goal was to achieve monetary and economic union by 1980," says a West German official. "Now, seven years from that goal, where are we? The British and the Germans are paying for French agriculture. That is all -and not enough." Remarked German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel last week: "This objective [of union by 1980] will never be achieved if each of the interested...
...Pole over such terrain in-50° F. temperatures is hard to swallow, particularly since he used his sextant sparingly. On the last leg of his trek, he ordered his only thoroughly trained navigator to stay behind. Peary's recorded speeds of the final march far exceed the rate he had managed previously. Others have noted that the logs Peary presented as evidence were surprisingly clean considering that Arctic explorers seldom washed before or after eating their greasy pemmican...
...first time, allows women to take maternity leave with pay. In the past, a woman leaving work to bear a child forfeited her pay. The new policy treats maternity leaves the same as leaves for illnesses, allowing the woman to collect her salary if her absence does not exceed the number of days allowed for sick leave...
...contract. The union is also asking for removal of the current ceiling on cost of living increases, a demand that the industry's chief negotiator, C.G. Zwingle, denounced as "shocking." Nobody expects the Teamsters to get more than a 400-an-hour raise, but even that would exceed the Phase III guidelines and encourage other unions whose contracts expire later this year to up the ante...
...waters are estimated to be 12 billion bbl. of oil and 50 trillion cu. ft. of gas. That is rather small by Middle Eastern standards-the oil reserves would supply only two years of Mideast production-but large by almost any others. For example, the North Sea deposits probably exceed the 10 billion bbl. of oil estimated to lie under Alaska's North Slope...