Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy that seems, at times, aimed more at breaking the Soviets by outspending them than by providing the U.S. with what it really needs for deterrence and defense. Unless this is done, says former Under Secretary of State George Ball, the U.S. economy is in danger of becoming "a Strasbourg goose with an overdeveloped liver...
...German lightship owned by the Worldwide Trading Co. of Liechtenstein, has beamed advertisements, contemporary pop music and news to Dutchmen bored with the conservative blandness of The Netherlands' three state-subsidized radio stations. Veronica became so popular that the Dutch government refused to ratify the 1965 Strasbourg convention for fear of losing votes. That agreement bars pirate stations from the territorial waters of the European nations that have signed it, and makes it illegal to supply programs or ads to such radio ships...
...Common Market countries have had no end of trouble reaching tariff agreements on such disparate items as German beer, French mayonnaise, and Italian spaghetti. Now a totally unexpected commodity is at issue. In Strasbourg last week, the fledgling European Parliament formally agreed to consider a question raised by a Belgian Socialist Deputy named Ernest Glinne. The Market, Glinne demands, should spell out once and for all "where we stand when the remains of cremated human beings are transported from one member state to another...
...crematoriums of its own. Until mid-1968, when the Six abolished international customs and substituted a complex system of "taxes on value added" (T.V.A.), this was no great problem; when a Luxembourgeois who believed in cremation died, his family would simply have him taken across the French border to Strasbourg. But under T.V.A., French tax collectors consider cremation a taxable "service rendered to a private person." As a result, they now dun bereaved Luxembourgeois for 17% of the Strasbourg crematorium's fee-the "value added" to the deceased. On their way home with the ashes, the mourners...
Roaring down the Paris-Strasbourg highway two weeks ago, a 22-ton truck overturned and boxloads of books covered in blue imitation leather were scattered all over the road. Despite that slipup, the secret of the book was kept intact. Last week, when it was released well ahead of schedule, and without the usual publicity buildup, all France was surprised. One critic compared its impact to that of "a 75-ton meteorite," which, as it happens, is just about the weight of the 250,000-copy first edition of Memoirs of Hope: The Renewal, the first of three volumes...