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...Copenhagen summit was set up within 24 hours after Pompidou proposed it last month. To underscore its urgency, the day-and-a-half meeting has been stripped of the usual bureaucratic trappings, so that the discussion can proceed, as French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert phrases it, "without constraints, without procedure and with an open heart." The nine heads of government will meet alone in a Copenhagen exposition hall, with only their translators. To achieve intimacy, as well as to preserve secrecy, even their dinners will be small affairs; the heads of government will dine in one room while the Foreign...
...spirit of near-desperation, Jobert, who recently complained that the superpowers had treated Europe like a "nonperson" in the Middle East negotiations, last month suggested a conference between the Arabs and the Europeans, without American or Russian participation. The Arabs, however, have not yet responded...
...same members are now rushing forward in pursuit of the Grail of European unity. "Europe has been treated like a nonentity," complained French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert in a remarkable turnabout. "Europe has been humiliated by the superpowers..." Willy Brandt, preaching to the converted, promised the European Parliament in Strasbourg: "We can and will create Europe." Ted Heath and Georges Pompidou, meeting at Chequers, exchanged vows of the same sort...
...position on the Atlantic summit-which Nixon wants -softened a bit from one of "nothing doing" to "we'll see," as one Elysee spokesman put it last week. The next round of talks begins with a meeting between Kissinger and Pompidou's brusque new Foreign Minister Michel Jobert in Paris this week...
...Easy End. The greatest surprise in the new Cabinet was small, balding Michel Jobert, 51, named Foreign Minister to replace Maurice Schumann, who had been defeated in the general election. A discreet but demanding and sometimes caustic former civil servant, little known to the public, Jobert joined Pompidou's personal staff ten years ago. At the Elysee Palace, he has functioned as Pompidou's Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Kissinger. Jobert, who has an American wife and a son in the American School of Paris, won himself many friends in Washington by helping with the difficult arrangements for the secret...