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...Many Bonn observers believe the government will not be able to serve out its full four-year term, which ends in 1980. Admits a senior government minister: "We are barely hanging...
Stricter Controls. Meanwhile, Bonn's relations with Washington remain cool. Although Carter at the London summit in May eased up on his demands that Schmidt should reflate the German economy, deep differences on nuclear policy remain. Bonn two weeks ago announced it would stop "for the time being" export of nuclear reprocessing and recycling plants. Schmidt insists that the Carter goal of a permanent ban is "unrealistic," since countries seeking atomic technology can easily buy it from the Soviet Union. When the two leaders meet in Washington in mid-July, Schmidt will repeat his argument to Carter that nonproliferation...
...that they would be allowed to disguise their purchase as a private commercial transaction in West Germany. In exchange, TIME'S sources say, Israel promised West Germany access to its advanced uranium separation process that can be used to produce nuclear weapons. Asked directly about it, officials in Bonn refused last week either to confirm or to deny any past government involvement in such a deal...
...helping to bomb a British boating club in West Berlin, she was one of five imprisoned terrorists released in exchange for kidnaped politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp run by the Marxist, militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
Died. Ludwig Erhard, 80, former Chancellor and architect of West Germany's economic miracle after World War II; of heart disease; in Bonn. A German economist without a Nazi past, Erhard was selected by U.S. Occupation officials to help restore Germany's war-ruined economy. A laissez-faire economist, he initiated currency reform, then abolished price controls and rationing. His rationale: "Turn the people and the money loose, and they will make the country strong." It worked. West Germany became Europe's most prosperous power. A strong supporter of the Common Market and European integration, Erhard succeeded...