Word: luxembourger
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...Wilson has yet to offer his colleagues-or, for that matter, British voters-a convincing reason for his turnabout. One of his chief objections to the Luxembourg agreement is that New Zealand's dairy products were not given a fair break. That view is not shared by the New Zealand government...
...answer came last week. In a long speech to Commons, Wilson declared that the terms agreed upon by Heath's Tory negotiators in Luxembourg in June for Britain's entry into the Common Market were unacceptable...
...both sides of the House. Despite Wilson's claim that Labor would have rejected the latest terms, one ex-Minister after another openly contradicted him. Former Foreign Minister Lord George-Brown and George Thompson, Wilson's onetime EEC negotiator, both said that the terms arrived at in Luxembourg were as good as anything that Labor could have hoped for. Roy Jenkins, deputy leader of the party, stated the case even more embarrassingly for Wilson when he told his constituents: "We set a course in government and should stick to it. There never was a time when honesty...
...addition, anyone who does not mind a one-hour stopover in Reykjavik can cross the Atlantic for $279 on a peak-season 29-to 45-day ticket by flying Icelandic, the only non-IATA airline regularly running between North America and Western Europe. But its jetliners land only in Luxembourg. If the fare is still too steep, the prospective traveler has one final choice: he can try to go to work for an airline, most of which offer employees 90% reductions after six months of work...
...night before, the British had confidently filled a bathtub with bottles of Luxembourg champagne and ice. Now they broke out the bubbly. "This is a historic day," declared Rippon. His sentiments were echoed throughout the capitals of Europe. The successful completion of the latest British negotiations, which first began in earnest last fall in Brussels, meant that membership also seems certain for Norway, Ireland and Denmark. By 1973, the Six may well be the Ten, with a combined economic strength surpassing the Soviet Union's and rivaling even the U.S.'s. The French, whose changed attitude made...