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...NATO presence now in France is variously estimated at from $300 million to more than $1 billion. Alternate port and supply facilities are readily available through the Low Countries and at North German ports. The U.S. and Canadian fighter groups could well be based in Britain; Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg are likely spots for relocating the command headquarters. The shift would be expensive and annoying, but the defense of Europe-including France-would ultimately be little affected, as De Gaulle well knows and in fact admits in wanting to remain an alliance member, enabling him to have NATO...
...boycott of the top councils of the Common Market, got back on the tracks last week. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville returned to Common Market headquarters in Brussels and once more sat down with the ministerial envoys of West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg in the mahogany-paneled Salle d'Europe...
Tenuous Compromise. The French presence in Brussels had been arranged six weeks earlier in Luxembourg by a compromise in which France and the other five EEC countries somewhat tenuously agreed to try to smooth over their rift without removing its causes. Still, before the European Economic Community can strip away the remaining tariff barriers to farm and industrial trade among its six members, it must wind its way through a maze of outstanding issues. Foremost among them...
...future of the Common Market was another subject to avoid. The French had agreed at Luxembourg last month to return to their vacant seat at Common Market headquarters largely because of some unexpectedly effective prodding from West Germany. Erhard thought that it might be a good time to try for some progress toward political union of the Six. Some observers were even speculating that France might be willing to let Britain reapply for Market membership. But le grand Charles does not yet need English allies. He smoothly informed Erhard that the Common Market's first order of business...
...three days and nights, delegates from the six Common Market nations haggled in Luxembourg over the proposals laid down by France as its terms for re-entry into EEC talks. Finally, the Six approved a compromise plan that formalized an agreement to disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty...