Word: bonne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government inadvertently made an issue of it. The political far right, including West Germany's small but active neo-Nazi fringe, chimed in with praise for the late admiral. Kurt Reitsch, an old navy friend of Dönitz's who is arranging the funeral, criticized Bonn for overreacting. Said Reitsch: "The only uniforms there will be those worn by the police sent to monitor a group of old men paying last respects to a colleague...
...West Germany for up to 20% less than a Volkswagen. A recent cover on the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel showed a yellow car with slanted eyes for headlights and buck teeth projecting over the bumper. Since West Germany ships 27% of its national production of goods abroad, the Bonn government thinks that it cannot impose import restrictions on Japanese cars without risking a damaging trade war. But pressure from labor unions is growing. Volkswagen this week had to put 6,700 of its workers on a shortened work schedule...
WEST GERMANY. This mighty economic juggernaut has begun to sputter badly. In 1980, West Germany's current account deficit, which includes trade of both goods and services, reached a record $15.4 billion; inflation was 5.2%, an unacceptable level by West German standards. The Bonn government is therefore slowing the growth of spending and curbing the money supply. Herbert Giersch, director of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics, expects no growth in his country this year, following a 1% decline in 1980. Though inflation should fall to 3.5% by the end of 1981, unemployment will rise...
FRANCE. Because President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing faces re-election this spring, the French government is unlikely to be quite as tightfisted as its Bonn counterpart. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, predicts that growth, which was 1.6% in 1980, will decline slightly to between .5% and 1% in 1981. Unemployment, now at 6.9%, could reach 8%. Progress against inflation will be small. After rising by 13.5% in 1980, prices this year will surge another 11% or more...
...appointment was generally applauded overseas. Said a senior British diplomat: "Haig was Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's first choice. He is in our view a highly intelligent, clear-headed and able man." Added a top-ranking foreign policy adviser in Bonn: "He is extremely well equipped for the job, and for us, it is especially gratifying that he knows well every important European personality." About the only dissent came, not surprisingly, from Moscow. An official with a worried expression groused: 'This won't help us improve things." Muttered another: 'Not good...