Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squirreled away in his safe-deposit box, Calvin Trillin keeps a list of prominent novelists who once sported Nehru jackets. Occasionally, he will take out this list and peruse the names the way a stamp collector savors his Luxembourg misprints. That is precisely what readers ought to do with Trillin's essays in Uncivil Liberties, originally written for the Nation from...
...counter the Soviet military threat. The West Germans will attempt to couple any such declaration with one that emphasizes the need to reduce East-West tensions. The final result may be a statement similar to one worked out last month by NATO foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg: "The allies will persevere in their efforts to establish a more constructive East-West relationship aiming at genuine détente . .. Arms control and disarmament, together with deterrence and defense, are integral parts of alliance security and policy." This compromise, first proposed by Denmark, was pleasing to Bonn because it explicitly...
...attendance will be government leaders from the U.S., Britain, Canada, West Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. Since France's formal withdrawal from NATO'S military command in 1966, its President does not attend summit meetings. Mitterrand, however, will be at the opening dinner. Premier Pierre Mauroy will represent France at the summit...
...crisis arose, ironically, only one month after Britain's European partners had, in a dramatic show of solidarity, voted unanimously to impose sanctions against Argentina for one month. Last week's first rebuff came when foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg reluctantly agreed to extend those sanctions for only seven more days instead of the additional month the British had sought. Italy and Ireland did not go along with even that limited measure. But a crueler blow fell the next day in Brussels, where Community agriculture ministers voted 7 to 1 (with Denmark and Greece abstaining) to override...
...drama then switched to Brussels, where the agriculture ministers were to take up the matter of increasing farm prices. Resorting to a time-tested tactic, Britain's Peter Walker began by claiming the right of veto under the Luxembourg compromise on the ground that farm prices directly affect the size of Britain's budget. Belgian Agriculture Minister Paul de Keersmaecker, who was in the chair, ruled that Walker's declaration of national interest was invalid on the ground that farm prices, not Britain's budget contribution, were at issue. De Keersmaecker was supported by France...