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...Icelandic Airlines plane revved up for a flight to the U.S. last week at the Luxembourg international airport, the scene near the boarding area was typical of the line's departures. Most of the passengers-a few families with children, many students with rucksacks and a large contingent of disheveled hippies -had been waiting for six hours or more. The young people passed the time dozing on the grass, discussing astrological signs or swapping stories in the harshly lit shed that serves as a waiting room. Quite a few passengers were smoking-but not necessarily tobacco. A Luxembourg policeman...
...cher ami, at last you are here," said French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann as he spotted his British counterpart, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Luxembourg's glass-sheathed Centre Européen. "I'm glad to see you!" Did Schumann's government share that feeling? That was the critical question last week as the foreign ministers of Europe's six Common Market nations greeted the delegates from the four hopeful applicants-Ireland, Norway and Denmark as well as Britain...
Formidable Rival. The hard negotiations to determine whether the Six will become the Ten are to be conducted at the European Economic Community's headquarters in Brussels. Nonetheless, it seemed fitting that the historic talks formally began in Luxembourg, where the European Coal and Steel Community, the forerunner of the Common Market, established its first headquarters in 1952 under the tutelage of Robert Schuman, France's pioneering Pan-European, and his compatriot Jean Monnet. Since then, the hopes of creating a United States of Europe have faded amidst charges that the Six add up to little more than...
...America when we started in the '50s," says Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the 1,200-unit chain of Holiday Inns. Having opened its first European inn two years ago at Leiden, The Netherlands, the company is building 15 more in Belgium, England, Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Greece and Luxembourg; it is also drawing plans for an additional 47. Esso Motor Hotels, a subsidiary of Jersey Standard, already has 41 outlets in Europe and expects to have 70 soon...
RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE Patricia Roberts Harris, LL.D., former dean of the Howard University Law School and former ambassador to Luxembourg. You have always advocated progressive change which rests on the framework of the rule of law. Virginia Harrington Knauer, L.H.D., Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs...