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...Sovereign State...
...planned birth on New Year's Day of the European Common Market. The boundaries of this new entity are roughly those of Charlemagne's Europe (Charlemagne ruled more of Germany, but only half of Italy). But this new super customs union, among states which remain politically sovereign, has a power potential undreamed of by the 9th century Franks. The 166 million people of the Common Market nations produce more steel than Soviet Russia, do more of the world's trade (one-fifth) than the U.S. No warrior hosts throng around the eight-story Brussels headquarters...
...vote for normalization" and "Vote against the occupation parties." At a claque-packed rally in West Berlin, white-maned Hermann Matern of the East German Politburo proclaimed that Western commercial planes have no right to fly over East Germany to West Berlin without his government's sovereign permission. "This situation must be brought in order," he blustered. Mayor Brandt sent his cops to protect the Communist rallies from irate West Berliners...
...form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other way out" but to denounce the Berlin occupation agreements, hand over Russia's present supervision of Allied traffic from the West to its "sovereign" East German puppet state, and-as a "realistic" concession-leave West Berlin "for the time being" in the status of a "demilitarized free city...
...pace from a prepared text, .Premier Khrushchev announced: "The time has come when the powers who signed the Potsdam agreement should give up the remnants of the German occupation regime. The Soviet Union, for its part, will hand over those functions which it still retains in Berlin to the sovereign German Democratic Republic [meaning Communist-run East Germany], and the U.S., French and British can form their own relations with East Germany if they still have questions about Berlin...