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When the leaders of the ten nations that constitute the European Community gathered last week at the Palais de Fontainebleau outside Paris, they knew that the outcome of their two-day summit might either launch the political and economic revival of Western Europe or set the seal on its decline...
Big spenders who plan to buy a West German luxury car this summer had better hurry to the showroom or they may be left clutching their cash. A six-week-long strike by West German metalworkers, who are pressing for a 35-hour week without a reduction in pay, has...
In fact, however, those and other provisions remained on the negotiating table in Geneva, and the Pentagon civilians were pressing for the incorporation of throw weight as a principal bar gaining feature. Weinberger succeeded in persuading the Joint Chiefs of Staff not to oppose him this time around. That task...
Cold winter weather settled over Argentina last week, but for President Raúl Alfonsín the heat was on. A team of negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was pressing Alfonsín to curb Argentine wages and government spending as part of an austerity program that would...
Last week's costly extravaganza, swollen with hordes of simultaneous translators, government aides and journalists, managed to affirm Western solidarity, and it certainly did no harm to Ronald Reagan's chances for reelection. But for all its lofty declarations, it made little progress in finding solutions to the...