Word: rome
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Cooperation was the keynote in the Vice President's audience with Pope Paul VI. From Rome, Humphrey headed for Florence to view the damage of last fall's floods and the effects of the $650,000 of American art-rescue efforts he had helped to organize. There, as he pondered this week's round of skull sessions with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West Germany's Kiesinger and France's De Gaulle, Humphrey could look back on a hectic week of 14-hour work days in which he had ful filled the first...
Disdainful of the Vatican's foreboding, Dutch theologians insist that they are not on the verge of creating a schism. "We cannot become isolated from Rome," says Schillebeeckx, "but we can tell Rome what we think." To prevent an open breach, the Dutch church depends strongly on the diplomatic skill of its hierarchy, headed by Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht. Although the bishops have publicly warned against excesses of reform, they have, in effect, tolerated the radical questioning of doctrine that is going on in The Netherlands, and have backed many priests whose views have got them...
...Brussels last week, the European Economic Community celebrated its tenth birthday. Since March 25, 1957, when the Treaty of Rome brought the Common Market into being, many of the Community's aspirations have remained unattained-and perhaps unattainable. Yet the record of accomplishment is impressive...
...billion, while trade between them has skyrocketed by 238%, to an estimated $23 billion this year. Internal tariffs on agricultural goods have dropped more than 60%; on industrial products, they are down 80%. On July 1, 1968, eighteen months ahead of the schedule set forth in the Treaty of Rome, the last tariffs within the EEC will disappear. Also taking effect will be an agricultural program with common farm prices and supports, plus unified levies on imports from outside the Community...
...businessmen have not. And perhaps the Common Market's most notable achievement is a new state of mind in Europe's business community. "The most important success of the Common Market," says Baron Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, Belgian banker and a signer of the Rome treaty, "has been in changing the attitudes of Europe's businessmen. An immense amount of capital investment has been made on the assumption of the larger market. This is something indestructible, and this huge stake in the success of the Common Market is the guarantee of its solidity...