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...again, its strategic location near major German population centers at last an advantage rather than a threat. Sleek high-rise apartments tower over half-timbered villages. Factory smokestacks loom above the countryside, famed for its dry Sylvaner and Riesling wines. Oil refineries have risen near the Gothic spire of Strasbourg's famed cathedral, and the Rhine port now serves as the Central European distribution center for the big South European pipeline from the Mediterranean. Since Alsatian resurgence began, 220 new plants have been set up, doubling sales of the province's industries to $1.6 billion in ten years...
Rhone Poulenc has built a new chemical plant near Ottmarsheim, Peugeot a transmission works at He Napoleon, Hispano-Suiza a factory for aircraft components at Molsheim. Franco-Canadian Polymer is making synthetic rubber near the Strasbourg refineries; three other chemical companies have bought sites near by. All this activity has made Strasbourg, 250 miles from salt water, France's biggest port for exports. "Alsace," says Albert Auberger, president of the Strasbourg Port Authority, "is the center of a vast market of 170 million consumers-the keystone of the great arch connecting the North Sea and the Mediterranean...
...Strasbourg, France, last week, ribbon-cutting dignitaries opened a modest building with a grandiose name, "Palace of Human Rights." It is the first permanent home of the European Court of Human Rights, and the festivities were no sooner over than the court faced up to a judicial Everest: ruling on the language rights of northern Belgium's French-speaking minority. In the third case of its six-year history, the court's decision may also determine whether the court itself lives or dies...
...more than 1,000 disputes involving the affairs of the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community and Euratom. Today, individuals from 15 European countries can in some cases appeal beyond their own countries' highest courts to the European Human Rights Court. Set up in 1958 in Strasbourg, France, a commission of the Court has reviewed up to 2,000 complaints and passed on to the Court only two (it found for Ireland in one, against Belgium in the other...
...week swing through Belgium and northeastern France. Their two dark green buses had carried them to Common Market headquarters in Brussels, a coal mine at Lens in northern France, the offices of UNESCO, Le Figaro, Le Monde and Paris-Match in Paris, Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg...