Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current Anglo-French crisis first boiled over two weeks ago, when France brusquely refused to participate in a London meeting of the Western European Union called to discuss approaches to a settlement of the Middle East crisis. The WEU, an international organization consisting of Britain and the six Common Market countries, was established in 1955, and laid out the ground rules for West German rearmament, notably a ban on development of nuclear weapons by Bonn. Since then, it has met intermittently to talk over defense questions and other problems of shared interest...
Because of De Gaulle's steadfast refusal to consider full Common Market membership for the U.K., Britain has clung desperately to the WEU as its only regular forum for multilateral conversations with the Six. When France refused to attend this month's WEU meeting, Paris claimed that what Britain wanted to discuss was the Common Market, a subject technically off-limits to the WEU. Foreign Minister Michel Debré once more raised De Gaulle's favorite specter of Anglo-Saxon conspiracy. Debré declared haughtily: "France considers that the British, who are always inclined to align themselves...
...Paris on Feb. 4 with Britain's Ambassador to France, Christopher Soames, an avid pro-European who is Winston Churchill's son-in-law, De Gaulle-according to the British account-proposed that the two countries should have a summit meeting to talk over replacing the Common Market with a larger economic association run by a four-power inner directorate of Britain, France, West Germany and Italy. This grouping would also form the nucleus of an all-European defense system to replace U.S.-dominated NATO. After consulting his government, Soames replied that Britain found the suggestions "significant...
...bombardment of South Vietnamese ci vilian areas since Lyndon Johnson or dered a bombing halt over North Viet Nam last Oct. 31. The big missiles, fired from the outskirts of the capital, whistled in during the early-morning hours in two brief barrages. One round fell into the central market, smashing vendors' stalls and killing a Vietnamese woman. The others dropped into residential areas, where at least five persons died...
...Eastern Europe is pulling apart. It is torn by resurgent nationalism and the desire to trade with the West. These trends run directly counter to the interests of the Soviet Union, which seeks to dominate the bloc's economic activities through Comecon, the Communist equivalent of the Common Market, and to control political developments through Moscow-dominated Communist parties. But Comecon is a failure, and the Soviet attempt to impose its will on Czechoslovakia now appears to have created more problems than it solved...