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...across the board, the Kennedy Round negotiators came under relentless pressure to end the marathon talks last week to allow time for the complex documents to be prepared for President Johnson's signature. Much of the delay was caused by the Common Market team, led by diminutive Jean Rey, a Belgian lawyer who heads EEC external affairs. Again and again since last fall, Rey stalled the bargaining in order to seek fresh instructions from EEC head quarters in Brussels. As last week began, even persuasive Eric Wyndham White, the British director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs...
...late Christian Herter early this year as chief U.S. negotiator, angrily threatened to break off negotiations and return to Washington. That impasse, which might well have doomed the Kennedy Round to failure, was resolved when Nils Montan, chief Scandinavian negotiator, persuaded Roth and the Common Market's Rey to lunch with him at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel. Over filet mignon de veau and a bottle of 1962 Chāteau Capbern St. Estéphe, tempers cooled. Roth promised to stay in Geneva; Rey agreed to quit stalling and wind up the negotiations promptly...
...week's end, as Rey returned once more from Brussels with final instructions, that haggle narrowed down to how much European chemical tariffs should be sliced before the American selling price is repealed, and how much afterwards - provided Congress agrees...
...think," says Rey, "that we did pretty well." There was still the question of how big Europe's contribution to food aid would be and whether the Common Market could be induced to cut its du ties further on such farm produce as meats, canned fruits and vegetables...
...Thornton Wilder's total literary output is small-six novels, four full-length plays. But if it is not a three-foot shelf, it bears witness to an original mind and a remarkable skill-The Skin of Our Teeth, Our Town and The Bridge of San Luis Rey are genuine American classics...