Word: mediterraneans
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...close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able to join the Community. Papandreou announced that unless the Community provided a six-year, $3.75 billion program to assist poor farmers in Mediterranean countries, he would veto any entry plan...
Papandreou based his demands for $3.75 billion on a proposal made earlier this year by the European Commission, the Community's Brussels-based executive body, to set up a six-year program to subsidize poor farmers in Mediterranean countries. But with the E.C. budget already strained, the Community leaders had planned to set aside only $37 million in aid to poor farmers next year. Papandreou resisted all efforts to lower his sights, including a $60 million counteroffer from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
...other leaders more annoyed than concerned. The reason: Greece already receives $750 million a year more from the E.C. than it pays in. If Spanish membership is blocked, West Germany will refuse to raise its revenue contributions to the Community, and there will be no money at all for Mediterranean support programs. Declared Kohl: "Anyone who blocks the entry of Spain and Portugal must bear a heavy responsibility." -By Robert T. Zintl. Reported by Bonnie Angela and Lawrence Malkin/ Dublin
...lonely boy. The son of a landowner must confront the social discomfort of "A Goatherd at Luncheon." Two gangs fight on the wreckage of a mysterious "Ship Loaded with Crabs." The stories are linked by a single theme, the confrontation of youthful opposites in the magical richness of the Mediterranean...
Thus occurs the Casablanca conference, the fourth of their eleven wartime meetings. Here Churchill gets his way, persuading Roosevelt to pursue a "Mediterranean strategy" of invading Italy rather than France, to Stalin's fury. But Churchill also begins to see how U.S. power is overtaking that of Britain. At one point he hopes that "our numbers justify increased representation for us in the high command." At another, he describes himself to Roosevelt, a little ruefully, as "your lieutenant...