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...commentator on Radio Luxembourg called it a "black day" for the European Common Market and "the end of Europe." Never one to disguise her convictions, Newswoman Liliane Thorn-Petit attacked the nine Common Market Foreign Ministers for what she considered a pro-Arab policy. The officials, she said, lacked the courage to stand up to Arab oil producers. None of her targets had reason to be pleased with Mme. Thorn-Petit's assault, but the least happy victim last week was Luxembourg Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn, who happens to be her husband...
...professional clashes between Gaston and Liliane have entertained tiny Luxembourg (pop. 340,000) since he took office in 1969. A member of both the Common Market and NATO, Luxembourg is a close-knit center of Continental gossip. Mme. Thorn-Petit's privileged access to diplomatic parties, plus her intimacy with one of the Grand Duchy's top news sources, has certainly not hindered the journalism career she began after her graduation from the Sorbonne in 1957. A specialist in financial and foreign news, she writes for the Associated Press, does a weekly column for the French paper...
...unprofessional conduct. "I have already begged my husband," she insists, "not to tell me if he has anything that is really secret and important. Then, if there's a leak, no one can suspect me." When the news of a possible German currency revaluation did filter out of Luxembourg in 1969, suspicion was about to center on her until her husband admitted that he was the culprit. He had revealed the news to one of his wife's colleagues...
...unpromising. European members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development last week discussed activating a standby sharing plan drawn up during the 1956 Middle East war, but decided not to do it yet, partly out of fear of further antagonizing the Arabs. More disquieting, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg set up a licensing system for petroleum exports-even though the European Common Market Commission warned them that any restriction of exports would violate the Treaty of Rome that created the Common Market. Italy, which has the largest refining capacity in Europe, already had banned heating oil and kerosene exports...
...shortage of labor. Some 35% of the work force is pension age; of the country's women between 16 and 60, 84% work outside the home-one of the highest percentages of any country in the world. Perhaps not coincidentally, the population growth is, next to Luxembourg's, the lowest in Europe...