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...Bonn, but a more accurate explanation was that everyone knew that the treaties would pass with a comfortable majority. Not even the French National Assembly could ignore the cold logic of Socialist Deputy Alain Savary: "The choice which France has is not between the European Community and the status quo, but between the European Community and solitude...
...save the day. Yet it is not Jordan's meaningless borders, its desert wastes, its desolate economy, or its restless population that are "vital" to the U.S. What matters vitally is the peace and stability of the area; it was not enough merely to reassemble the unworkable status quo ante-though that is progress of sorts. So long as half a million Palestine refugees have so little to look forward to, so long will Jordan rock. Stability in which to work for better solutions is only the start, but it is a necessary start. The young King...
...Chancellor had not really expected any. With a general election coming up, what Adenauer wanted-and what he got-was public confirmation that, no matter what his Socialist opponents might say, Russia is far less interested in German reunification on any terms than it is in preserving the status quo in Europe, so as to give itself time to regain its hold on the satellites...
...maintain lists of items that can be marketed to the Soviet European bloc or to Red China, and in what amounts. The U.S. is prepared to negotiate off the stricter Chinese list such items as its fellow members, particularly Britain and Japan, want to remove. As a quid pro quo, and to help narrow the gap between the two sets of controls, some additional items may be added to the list covering the Soviet European bloc...
...determination by which the Algerians might compromise profitably with France, as Morocco and Tunisia had done. Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans the happy phrase was "independence within interdependence." Now Bourguiba proposed a referendum in which Algerians could choose between 1) independence, 2) status quo with a reform program, 3) federation with some form of internal autonomy. Snorted Moroccan Rabble-Rouser Allal el Fassi, who takes his cue from Nasser: "The time is not yet ripe for solutions...