Word: simonet
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Similarly, in Belgium, the NATO proposal was opposed by powerful members of the Socialist Party, a component of the fragile government coalition. In a parliamentary meeting, Foreign Minister Henri Simonet arrogantly declared that some of his party colleagues "would be better employed drawing comic strips than dealing with foreign affairs." In Denmark and Norway, some leftists also had strong reservations about the missile plan. For a while it looked as if NATO might degenerate into what the West Germans had always feared it could become if left alone to shoulder the nuclear responsibility: a two-tier organization of small powers...
...soil. Britain has indicated a willingness to add to its minuscule nuclear force; Belgium has also signaled that it would be willing to go along. The Netherlands, on the other hand, seems too divided on the issue at the moment to make a decision. As Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet told TIME: "Without ratification of SALT II, it will be politically impossible for the West Germans-and even more so for us Belgians and the Dutch -to say that we are going to modernize our theater nuclear forces. I will not accept the risk. It would be to commit political...
...getting nowhere for four years, U.S. and European negotiators have tentatively agreed on a plan to cut tariffs an average of 44% across the board. Such a reduction would help swing the talks toward ways of lowering trade barriers rather than raising new ones. But Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet warns that a steel OMA might stop progress in the talks, and a U.S. Treasury official adds, "If we erect another trade barrier, the whole future of free trade as we know it is in jeopardy." If the Geneva talks fail, it is easy to foresee a truly vicious circle...
...inevitable, given the severity of the economic problems facing the consuming nations. No matter how they are recycled, oil loans are just a massive Band-Aid; real relief cannot come until consuming nations find lasting ways to crawl out of their oil deficits. As Henri Simonet, vice president of the European Commission, bluntly puts it: "Recycling is only another word for indebtedness...
...they must form a cartel of consuming nations that would negotiate prices with the producers' cartel. "I think that can be efficient," said Simonet...