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Normally, Wirtschaftswunderkind Erhard has been able to allay economic fears with his prosperous presence and confident campaign style. This time the hecklers got the better of him. Speaking in Gelsenkirchen during the last week of the campaign, Erhard was confronted by a grim-faced chorus of Kumpel (miners) who closed in about the speaker's platform carrying black flags and muttering about impending mine closings. "Shameless riffraff!" snapped Erhard when they booed him. "If it hadn't been for me, these louts and hoot owls would have rotted in their diapers. Never have I seen so much stupidity...
...Personal Expression. Russia's main fear has been that in a reunified Germany the Red Army could no longer "cork" the threat of German expansion -either military or economic-into Eastern Europe. To allay that fear, Barzel proposed that Germany assume "special military status" outside NATO and that Soviet troops be allowed to remain on reunited German soil. He reiterated earlier promises of a continuing German aid-and-trade arrangement with Eastern Europe and proposed an economically palatable 5% annual increase for the next 20 years as well. Barzel also suggested that the Communist Party could be "legalized...
Making matters even more complicated, some drugs increase the potency of enzyme activity. This leads to the bizarre situation in which a heart patient needs more of the anticlotting coumarin drugs if he is also taking barbiturates to allay his anxiety. The "barbies" hasten the breakdown of coumarin, and they have the same effect on some antiepilepsy and antifungal drugs...
...Faculty members sought to allay fears of Chinese world conquest in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday...
...allay German fears of excessive foreign control, Layton has continued Ford's policy of keeping American influence at "low visibility." Of the 35,500 Ford Taunus employees, only 23 are Americans. To reassure his engineers that he can see beyond his accountant's ledger, Layton picks a new Taunus every night from the Cologne assembly plant, drives it to his suburban home, returns it the next morning with a meticulous check list of complaints and suggestions. Layton's optimism about autos is equal to Detroit's. "The European car market...