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...start, the six Common Market countries (France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux) last July set up a committee under French Diplomat Christian Fouchet to suggest a plan for a politically unified Europe to move parallel with the growing economic community...
There was only one trouble: Fouchet's own boss, Charles de Gaulle, jealously husbanding France's sovereignty, was dead against the whole idea of supranationalism in any form. He rejected even his own French officials' first mild draft. In its place last month came a substitute French proposal ordered by le grand Charles, which even seemed to kill the long-accepted supranational economic control built into the Common Market. More than that, France's new draft suggested a European defense structure that made no provision whatever for liaison with or membership in the NATO system...
...other words, the Common Market's Fouchet committee could start from scratch again this week when it begins another round in planning One Europe -an irresistible idea, which Charles de Gaulle may dislike but which will be left for the generation after Charles de Gaulle to achieve...
...growing unrest by peaceful means. Tunisian Premier Tahar ben Amar was summoned to a delicate conference in Paris. Ben Amar could not give much ground, or he would be scorned and disowned by hotheaded compatriots. Mendes' Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, a Gaullist named Christian Fouchet, was under heavy pressure by his fellow Gaullists to show an iron hand in North Africa. Thus, with neither man left much room for maneuvering, Fouchet and Ben Amar dickered for days, trying to find some way to end the months-long guerrilla war between Tunisian fellaghas (rebel bandits) and French Union...
...being dispatched this week. By posters, leaflets dropped from airplanes, public announcements in mosques, the offer will be proclaimed. Those fellaghas who turn in their arms within six days will be allowed to go their way without punishment or harassment of any kind. If the amnesty offer fails, Minister Fouchet promised a "pitiless" military campaign against the rebels...