Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone to work. Women comprise a whopping 34.3% of the West German labor force, and often hold down jobs in formerly all-male provinces. Gas tanks along the Autobahnen are often operated by coveralled frauleins. Bonn has female barbers, policemen and butchers. Women outnumber men in 22 industries, from hatmaking to public relations, and they own one out of five businesses. There are 43 women in the West German Parliament, including the Minister of Health. Even a beer-hall political discussion is no longer safe; Die Zeit's Marion Dbnhoff, an attractive countess, is a widely quoted political columnist...
Prodded by the U.S., Bonn agreed to carry more of the West's underdeveloped-areas burden about a year ago, when it set up a special aid ministry under a former private-business consultant, Walter Scheel. Since then, the West German government has provided or promised $1,425.000,000 in assistance funds to 45 countries, mostly in Asia and Africa, but also in Latin America. Most of Bonn's loans are in the form of long-term credits (12-20 years), and almost all of them are earmarked for such projects as factories and mines that encourage private...
...money from Germany, which used to run the place as a colony before World War I. When the Germans refused, the Camerounians held them at the airport for several hours before allowing them to go home. Other African leaders, such as Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic, come to Bonn themselves...
...blackmail (i.e., "If you don't help us, we'll go Communist"). It is: "Help us or we'll recognize the East German regime." Equipment supplied by the West Germans is first-rate-in fact, sometimes too complicated for the limited skills of the recipients. When Bonn built a steel plant at Rourkela. India, there were simply not enough local people to run it, and so far it has worked at far below capacity...
...Accusations. Though almost all of Bonn's aid is in the form of loans, not grants, some Germans have inevitably been growling about giveaways. The newsmagazine Der Spiegel ran a series of articles arguing that West Germany is an underdeveloped nation. A German diplomat, echoing complaints in the U.S. about misspent funds that American aid officials have heard since the days of the Marshall Plan, pointed to the $30,000, custom-built Rolls-Royce in which...