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Perhaps it was too easy. Success fueled exaggerated visions of a grand, institutionalized United Europe. There was talk of a common flag, of joint Olympic sports teams, but nationalism stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated...
...eroded more pan-European illusions. In 1971 France dropped its longstanding opposition to British membership in the Community, and Britain, along with Ireland and Denmark, formally joined in 1973. The expansion of a formerly tightly knit group offered enlarged economic possibilities, but also hampered cohesion. The original spirit of joint sacrifice splintered in frequent acrimony, especially after the two oil-price shocks of the decade weakened West European economies. By the early '80s, the once solid NATO consensus on defense also came under strain as a result of the drawn-out missile-deployment drama...
...little like an opposing general inspecting enemy lines, as Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca flew off to Japan last week aboard his company's Gulfstream II. The first objective was Mitsubishi Motors, with which Chrysler has for some time wanted to set up joint production in the U.S. lacocca and Mitsubishi President Toyoo Tate announced that the companies in 1988 will begin making a small car in a plant to be built in the Midwest or South. The project will cost $500 million, turn out 180,000 cars a year, employ 2,500 autoworkers and create as many...
After discussing U.S.-Japan trade problems with Keijiro Murata, Minister of International Trade and Industry, lacocca went to South Korea, where he announced a joint venture with Samsung, a conglomerate that makes everything from ships to electronics. The Samsung-Chrysler operation will produce auto parts and components in Korea for export to the U.S. Both the Japanese and Korean deals underscored Chrysler's policy of not building subcompact cars in the U.S. entirely on its own. The company will now be relegating at least part of the job to foreign companies to keep costs down. ELECTRONICS Sony Complicates the Picture...
Laurence H.S. Coderre ’07, a joint Music and East Asian Studies concentrator, said she is excited for the contributions Ma will make to the Harvard curriculum and hopes that the Silk Road Project will provide an opportunity to study what she said was a somewhat neglected topic within the Music and East Asian Studies departments at Harvard...