The six Common Market countries have had no end of trouble reaching tariff agreements on such disparate items as German beer, French mayonnaise, and Italian spaghetti. Now a totally unexpected commodity is at issue. In Strasbourg last week, the fledgling European Parliament formally agreed to consider a question raised by a Belgian Socialist Deputy named Ernest Glinne. The Market, Glinne demands, should spell out once and for all "where we stand when the remains of cremated human beings are transported from one member state to another."
Glinne's ire is focused on the case of tiny, traditionally Catholic Luxembourg. Because of...
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