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DIED. Per Haekkerup, 63, Danish politician and diplomat; of cirrhosis; in Copenhagen. As his nation's Foreign Minister from 1962 to 1966. Haekkerup lobbied for Denmark's admission into the Common Market (achieved in 1973), opposed the Viet Nam War and apartheid in South Africa...
Nobody lobbied harder for a full-dress conference of the two trade groups than the Danes. Foreign Minister Per Haekkerup hopped from table to table at luxurious dinners, turned up at hotel suites all around town for whispered consultations with other delegates, even moved from his seat as conference chairman to intervene vigorously in the debate. The Common Market's crisis, argued Haekkerup, could lead to a major reshuffle that would produce closer economic and political ties throughout Europe-and EFTA should nudge things along. Reason for the Danish push: though EFTA as a whole runs a chronic trade...
...idea of strong action. Said Swiss Economics Minister Hans Schaffner: "It would be like asking a couple in a divorce action to adopt a child." At week's end the delegates settled for a mild expression of readiness to talk whenever the EEC is ready, authorized Haekkerup to press his views with the ambassadors of Common Market countries in Denmark (which he immediately did). That was a timorous step. Still, it showed that EFTA's members, no less than the EEC's "other five," agree that Europe should keep striving to tear down tariff barriers and escape...
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