Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal,' " laments Lord Gladwyn, a member of Britain's delegation to the European Parliament at Strasbourg, "they think you are going to abolish the Queen. If you say 'supranational,' they think a French gendarme is going to hit them over the head. Eventually, if prices do not rise too much, if there is not great unemployment, if there hasn't been an invasion of Italians raping all the women, then people will simply accept...
...Rene Schaller, 37, once studied theology at Strasbourg and Paris but decided he did not have a vocation to the priesthood. Now a marriage counselor, he is married, has two children and is a driving force behind the international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made his "parish" a newly built quarter on the periphery of Lyons. There he is president of a tenants' union, which defends renters in disputes with landlords. He also performs marriages and baptisms for anticlerical couples who resent the presence of priests but are willing to accept the new deacons...
...popular demand whatsoever, the European Parliament met at Strasbourg last week. Despite its sonorous and imposing name, it may well be the least effective arm of the expanding Common Market. Its 183 members, including 41 new Danish, Irish and British delegates, are not elected but appointed by their national legislatures. Established in 1958, the Strasbourg assembly never has had any say over the EEC's budget, personnel or policies. All of these are controlled by the large bureaucratic machine in Brussels. The European Parliament's one real power is the right to censure or even dismiss the Common...
...short, the European Parliament is something of a laughingstock among legislatures. It has no permanent home and meets variously in Strasbourg or Luxembourg, while its 13 standing committees usually convene in Brussels. The Parliamentarians, 1,200 members of the secretariat and 30 tons of documents are perpetually shuttling between the three cities. That predicament has turned a Luxembourg trucking company into one of the continent's most prosperous and made good business for hotels. It has also earned some of the peripatetic Parliamentarians the distinction of being the hardest-drinking legislators in the world and made the "Strasbourg girl...
This rare form of civil baptism dates back to 1790 in Strasbourg, where the first recorded ceremony took place amid the fervor of the French Revolution. Recent years have seen a sporadic revival of the practice particularly among atheistic socialists like the parents in last week's ceremony, Jacques Destable, 27, and his wife Christine, 22. Writing in the Morlaix birth registry, the Destables charged the godparents with the responsibility, if necessary, of raising their daughter Juliette "solely in the cult of reason, honesty, the love of labor and of the republic...