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Died. Lord Oaksey, 90, the brusque British jurist who, as president of the International Military Tribunal, dominated the Nuremberg trials; in Malmes-bury, England. Widely known for his sense of courtroom propriety, Lord Oaksey, then Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, provided a dramatic conclusion to the proceedings when he imposed the death sentence on twelve of the 22 major Nazi defendants...
...prospect seems to have unnerved Wilson. Normally a sure-footed parliamentary maneuverer, he stumbled badly last week in the House. At one point the Tories' chief Market negotiator, Geoffrey Rippon, quoted a letter from Lord Campbell, chairman of the Commonwealth sugar exporters, as saying that the sugar deal made in Brussels was "satisfactory." Wilson leaped to his feet. Lord Campbell had told him only that morning, said Wilson, that "if Rippon quotes that letter, he is not entitled to do it because Rippon knows the real facts." Coldly, Rippon immediately replied: "I utterly, totally and completely repudiate what...
...fitting finale for Britain's ten-year quest for membership in the thriving European Economic Community. Dawn had already broken and sleeping reporters were sprawled around the press quarters when the Foreign Ministers of the Six invited British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon to their conference room to hear his formal acceptance of their conditions for British entry. As Rippon stepped into the room on the second story of Luxembourg's modernistic Kirchberg European Center, the rumpled, bleary-eyed ministers spontaneously broke into applause. The gesture was as much an indication of relief as of welcome to Britain, whose...
...European Center this week, a meeting is taking place that may well mark a watershed in Europe's torn and often tragic history. For the fifth time in six months, the foreign ministers of the six members of the European Economic Community are meeting with Chief British Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon to clear the last hurdles on the terms for Britain's entry into the Common Market...
...groundwork for the Heath-Pompidou sessions had been laid the week before in Brussels. During an all-night meeting, the Foreign Ministers of the Six and British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon reached working arrangements on three major points concerning British entry. They were preferential treatment for Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, British adjustments to the EEC's higher-priced agricultural produce, and a formula for British contributions to the EEC's central budget. A number of other developments, however, helped ensure a hospitable climate for last week's summit meeting. One was West Germany's recent unilateral...