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              see d'estaing page 6 decisive political force among the nations of europe is hindering their develop ment a unified europe will elim inate these difficulties d'estaing said the nations of europe are naturally moving toward this unified state the move to a federal struc ture is part and parcel of a natural order of events d'estaing said he showed how history gives evidence of the inevita ble union by outlining the series of agreements europe an nations have made with one another since 1950 these agreements have culminated in monetary and intercom merce cohesiveness and will ultimately result in a larger free market in 1993 d'estaing said however d'estaing said these advancements are not enough he said the process toward federalization needs to be accelerated europe needs to move forward that is it needs to make progress towards new transfers of judi cial powers from the individu al state to the community and approach the goal of becom ing a genuine federation d'estaing said the next step according to d'estaing is the establish ment of a common currency system additionally the countries of europe need to the countries of europe must join together to form a federative union of states to improve their political and economic position in the by robyn suriano brown and while editorial page editor world said former president of france valery giscard d'estaing in a lecture wednes day night in lower grace hall while it is true that the path to a greater degree of supranationality is always painful for the nations that have agreed to it the stake in this case is peace in europe and consequently in the world there has never been a more justifiable sacrifice d'estaing explained he addressed an audience of students faculty alumni and community members attending the fifth annual cohen international rela tions lecture d'estaing ser ved as president of the french republic from 1974 to 1981 he is now the leader of the french political opposi tion d'estaing said that ameri cans are interested in the development of a unified european state and stressed that the united states should not fear such a union he suggested that americans try to understand what a unified european community will mean to the world and assist the european countries in achieving this goal d'estaing said a federation of european states will be able to assist the poor nations of the world and therefore alleviate the united states obligation to aid needy countr ies the presence at the unit ed states side of a unified and therefore dynamic democratic and peaceful european community is a powerful factor working for peace and prosperity in the world d'estaing said as they exist now the inde pendent nations of europe have different currencies and exchange rates d'estaing said the lack of a common form of currency makes travel ing between countries expen sive he also said the lack of a forum wants partial divestment valery giscard d'estaing mw photo byjason stanford by jennifer provda brown and white news writer forum voted to recommend partial divestment by lehigh university to the administration at yesterday's meeting the proposal entails divesting all funds from companies that have not met minimum perfomance condi tions with direct investments in the republic of south africa based on 1989 figures lehigh pres ently holds 20 million in 20 compan ies which would be affected by the partial divestment vote some arguments for selective divest ment were that lehigh should uphold its high moral standards by continual ly involving themselves in companies that positively influence the commun campus even then the vote was still toward partial divestment but the issue came to a standstill this year a committee was formed to study the problems and disadvantages of divestment policies the committee wanted to get a general student consen sus so they conducted a survey over the network unfortunately only about 100 students responded with 55 percent in favor of divestment and 45 percent not in favor of it professor of chemistry charles kraihanzel of the south african issues committee said it's amazing what responses people will give when given the opportunity to respond kraihanzel said that one student see forum page 7 ity and that other schools have developed some sort of policy toward south african investments partial divestment would commit lehigh to measure the performance of the companies it would invest in pressuring them to meet the standards selective divestment also affects fewer companies creating less of an impact on lehigh's financial earnings in favor of partial divestment whit ney rearick 91 said some people think the school would lose money by divesting but other schools have done it and they're still in business if you do it right you won't lose any money lehigh first took up the divestment issue in 1988 when there seemed to be much activism on the subject around the brown and white lehigh university friday april 20 1 990 d'estaing speaks to lu crowd vol 97 no 42 inside news susan lanter 91 , was elected senior class president in class elections held yesterday page 4 arts & leisure reggae great bob marley's wailers to appear in allentown tonight page 14 sports lehigh's golf team rebounds from first season loss to win over lafayette page 24 special earth day section pagesl2-13