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...cover ourselves with glory." The very thought would sound like romantic nonsense to much of Western Europe, which today is being swept by a new wave of pacifism and neutralism. This sentiment, combined with economic strains within the alliance (all too evident at the Ottawa summit in late July), long-building political tensions, and the palpable growth of Soviet power, has brought the West once again to deep doubt about the future of NATO...
...conference's final eleven-page communiqué, when it was issued from Ottawa's National Arts Center, contained few surprises, offering inoffensive concessions to all participants' points of view. On interest rates, for example, the document said: "We see low and stable monetary growth as essential to reducing inflation. Interest rates have to play their parts in achieving this and are likely to remain high where fears of inflation remain strong. It is also highly desirable to minimize volatility of interest rates and exchange rates...
...bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Spaak helped formulate the Community's position at last week's Ottawa summit, for which he was about to depart when he was killed...
...seven mightiest non-Communist industrial powers meet in Canada for the latest in a series of annual conferences devoted to economic affairs. It promises to be a quiet and, at least on the surface, harmonious session, in keeping with its rustic setting. Le Chateau Montebello, 40 miles east of Ottawa, is the world's largest building made of logs. (One member of the U.S. advance team ungenerously called it "a dump...
Assuming that the Polish Communist Party congress this week does not provoke Soviet intervention, the Ottawa conferees will talk at length about how far to go in shoring up the battered Polish economy, and how to coordinate their efforts. Reagan and his aides will also try hard to persuade the European leaders, who confront a rising tide of neutralist sentiment in their countries, that the U.S. does not intend to pursue a blindly rigid anti-Soviet foreign policy, but is receptive to eventual arms-control negotiations with the U.S.S.R. "The Europeans are worried that we are cutting off the lines...