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Though few daily newspaper readers have ever heard of it, one of the world's most respected news services is a tiny organization called Agence Europe. The nine men who gathered in Luxembourg's Hotel Brasseur cafe to herald the service's tenth anniversary last week constitute the entire staff. Ever since they were hired, they have surveyed the same un-romantic-sounding beat: Europe's Common Market. But by their authoritative reporting of the political and economic experiments that are changing Europe, they have made the daily blue-green bulletins of Agence Europe required reading...
Since then, working out of its own bureaus in Luxembourg and Brussels, and through a Pan-European chain of correspondents, Agence Europe has continued to pry into Common Market affairs with uncommon energy. One Market official in Luxembourg complains that every time he opens his desk drawer, "out pops an Agence Europe spy." To foil Gazzo and his men, the European bureaucracy runs security checks on its own typists and secretaries, once hired a female acquaintance of Gazzo's as a counterspy. The scheme fell through when the lady loyally peached. When Britain's Common Market mission moved...
According to the National-Zeitung, some of the money is being reinvested in profitable European companies. In one such deal, the Trujillos bought 70% control of Geneva's Banque Genevoise de Commerce et Credit. They also put $4,500,000 in cash into a new Luxembourg holding company called Societe Holding Bancaire et Financiere Europeene S.A. To the company's other founders, the Trujillos were known merely as the "Paris Group...
Much of Icelander Halldor Laxness' life has been a search for an earthly paradise. He has sought it in a monastery in Luxembourg, among surrealists in Paris, in the Communist Party. His novels have faithfully reflected the current state of his search. Independent People, for instance, which won him the 1955 Nobel Prize, deals with Icelandic freeholders battling capitalist landowners. In his latest novel, Laxness, now 60, takes a tranquil, detached look at man's age-old quest for paradise and in delicately laced, gently ironic prose shows how elusive paradise...
...prosecution demanded conviction but recommended leniency. The defense asked acquittal, blamed "a poisoned gift from modern science." The court admitted as evidence stacks of letters supporting the defendants, and a public opinion poll promoted by Radio Luxembourg ran 10 to 1 in their favor. At week's end, the jury of twelve men took just 105 minutes to reach its verdict: not guilty...