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Measurably Mellowed. The sudden surprising burst of progress established a favorable climate for the summit meeting in Paris this week between France's President Georges Pompidou and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The breakthrough came on the second evening of the two-day bargaining session in Brussels. The first day had ended poorly. Rippon was adamant in his demands for assurances that Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, such as Jamaica, Mauritius and Fiji, be granted special preferences to sell their commodity to the Common Market. The Six refused. "They tried to hustle us as if we were...
...that he cannot offer his membership anything less than the package that his union wrested in mid-March from the can industry. That settlement included an increase in wages and benefits amounting to about 31% over three years, plus an escalator clause tied to the cost of living. R. Heath Larry, 57, U.S. Steel's vice chairman, who heads management's bargaining team, has indicated that a 31% wage boost is too high. The most tenacious sticking point, however, will be the cost of living provision; in the 116-day strike of 1959, the union accepted limitations...
Britain's withdrawal from the Far East represents a reluctant political retreat for the Tory government of Prime Minister Edward Heath. He promised to re-study, if not reverse, the pullout east of Suez that was pledged by Labor's Harold Wilson in 1968. But the harsh imperatives of economics have forced Heath to adopt Wilson's policy-with one important change. A loosely knit, five-power "consultative defense arrangement" with Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand is scheduled to come into effect...
Britain will also keep three communications and refueling bases in the Indian Ocean, partly to keep watch over what Heath sees as a growing Russian threat in the Indian Ocean. They are among the loneliest, most remote spots on earth, and the loneliest of all is Gan, a dot of coral only 1¾ miles long in the Maldives, 700 miles southwest of Ceylon, 42 miles below the equator, and 2,200 miles east of Africa. For a view of that farthest-flung outpost of a vanishing empire, TIME Correspondent John Blashill recently visited Gan. His report...
European leaders are aware of the enormous size of the stakes-and of the danger that the negotiations will founder on petty details. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has assured Heath that he will press for a speedy decision. French President Georges Pompidou recently intimated that he will confer directly with Heath if the negotiators are unable to cut their way through the maze of issues. Pompidou has said that he favors British admission, but there is some suspicion that the French once more are seeking to find an issue on which to block British admission, as they have done...