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From the speaker's tribune in Paris' cavernous Luxembourg Palace one morning last week, France's Premier Michel Debre, a short, subdued man in a dark suit, unhappily told the French Senate: "Last week we almost witnessed the collapse of the state." Then he formally requested near-dictatorial powers for his boss, Charles de Gaulle. Shaken by his subordinates' fumbling vacillation in the face of the Algiers uprising, De Gaulle had bitterly concluded that if France was to have effective government he must provide it personally...
...result of its economic strength, many a European nation felt confident enough to lower some of its trade barriers and chop away red tape. The Common Market (West Germany, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg) in its first year was such a resounding success that Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden and Denmark formed their own Outer Seven trading area to enjoy the benefits of mass markets and freer trade. Said a Common Market official in Brussels: "At the start, the politicians were for European unity, and the businessmen were very skeptical. But now it is the businessmen...
Mitterrand had gone only a few blocks when he noticed that he was being followed by another car. As he later told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...
Cutting Sarlc. At once tempers flared. Monaco's Ollivier urged that the Little Four be expanded to the Little Seven with the addition of the Vatican, Luxembourg and Sark, the last a semi-autonomous island in the English Channel with .. population of 450. The baron protested that Sark has more birds than people, and added testily: "Luxembourg does not belong either. Its population of 300,000 dwarfs the rest of us put together. Be sides, Luxembourg is a member of NATO and out of our class...
...offshore in the yacht of Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis. The young Aga Khan, fresh from Harvard, kept happy a chateauful of guests, including pretty Tracy Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck and his good friend, Chanteuse Juliette Greco, were at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain...