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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 8, 1984
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The foreign ministers of the WEU are next scheduled to meet in
Paris June 12, and Mr. Mitterrand's ideas are expected to be
discussed at that time. But French officials caution that it
will be a low-key affair and that France intends to tread very
carefully because of West German fears the WEU might weaken NATO
and encourage at '
least a partial u.s. troop withdrawal from
Europe. Britain is relatively cool to the idea for the same
reason•..•
A new opinion poll conducted for the European Parliament showed
that 41 percent of the French would like Britain to leave the
EEC, while 26 percent of Britons want France out.
In a practical demonstration of French-German cooperation, both govern
ments, according to the May 28 AVIATION WEEK AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY, are ex
pected to sign a joint memorandum of understanding for the development of a
new antitank helicopter by early July. The first flight of a prototype
could be in 1987, and the first delivery--to the French military--could be
as early as 1991.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau