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| 1962, April 10 |
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| Edward Heath, leading Britain's negotiations on the Common Market, declared that Britain planned to play its “full part” in the political and economic future of the Common Market. | 1 |
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| June 6–7 |
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| The COMECON conference in Moscow adopted the principle of the “internationalist socialist division of labor.” | 2 |
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| June 14 |
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| Ten Western European governments set up a European Space Research Organization, devoted to space experiments. | 3 |
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| July 25 |
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| General Lyman L. Lemnitzer was appointed to succeed General Norstad as supreme allied commander, Europe. | 4 |
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| Aug. 5 |
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| Negotiations for British entry into the Common Market foundered on the relationship of the Commonwealth to the European market, but British prime minister Macmillan and French president De Gaulle agreed (Dec. 15) to continue examination of the problem. | 5 |
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| Aug. 8 |
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| Foreign Minister Schroeder indicated that Bonn would break diplomatic relations with any country endorsing a peace treaty between East Germany and the USSR. | 6 |
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| Aug. 22 |
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| The USSR abolished the office of Soviet commandant in East Berlin. The United States declared that the action would not affect the rights of Western commandants in Berlin. | 7 |
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| Dec. 12 |
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| State visit of Marshal Tito to Moscow, during which Premier Khrushchev, addressing the Supreme Soviet, angrily attacked the Chinese Communists, who in reply began to call on Communists the world over to revolt against Soviet domination. | 8 |
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