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...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...
...problem is that OPEC has become a monopoly, said Henri Simonet, vice president of the Commission of the European Communities (Common Market). "There are only two ways of having a price picture that is tolerable to the world as a whole," he declared. The industrialized nations must become self-sufficient in energy-which is unlikely...
...they must form a cartel of consuming nations that would negotiate prices with the producers' cartel. "I think that can be efficient," said Simonet...