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Perhaps it was too easy. Success fueled exaggerated visions of a grand, institutionalized United Europe. There was talk of a common flag, of joint Olympic sports teams, but nationalism stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated...
...other people who have been living in the twilight for so long. I think South Africa is at last growing up." In the colored township of Eersterus, outside Pretoria, Clive Fisher, a colored glazier, eagerly set about making plans for a formal church wedding to his English-born partner, Adele White, with whom he has been living for five years. "For the first time in my life," said the 34-year-old Fisher, "I feel proud to be a South African...
...mistake, your tax refund is too big. Do you tell the IRS? You want a child but your partner doesn't. Do you stop using contraceptives without your mate's knowledge? A friend asks you to write a reference, but you feel he's poorly qualified for the job. Do you refuse? These are among the 245 moral dilemmas, both large and small, posed by A Question of Scruples, a provocative new game from Canada that is already bidding to match the popularity of an earlier north-of-the-border import, Trivial Pursuit...
...Industrial investment is good, partly in response to higher corporate profits. Inflation has dropped to 5.7% annually this year, and is expected to decline to 5.2% in 1986. Even with that improvement, France's inflation is still about three percentage points higher than that of its major trading partner, West Germany...
...ordered a platter of cheese in a local restaurant in Western Massachusetts. Fascinated by the taste of the cheese, she became interested in value-added farming, which includes making cheese from milk produced on a dairy farm. She currently owns a cheese farm in Vermont with her life partner...