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Meanwhile, Callaghan seems to be pinning his hopes on the West Germans. Schmidt recently met with Callaghan; he has agreed that West Germany will give full support for Britain's IMF loan application, much of which will in fact involve German funds. Bonn will also drop its demand for a revalued "green pound," the rate of exchange at which agricultural transactions are conducted within the European Community and that now amounts to a subsidy for British food prices. Thus, as in Italy, the economic clout of the West Germans may well be a decisive political factor in Britain...
...mentioned that Juno was in the basement of a Bonn museum in 1934 when Hitler decided that all paintings that weren't Rhenish should be sold. An astute collector snatched up the painting for 900 Marks, or $214. "We got even with Hitler," Hammer said of the deal. "That...
...West Germany. The newly opened election campaign heated up last week when the Bonn government announced that it would send a high Justice Ministry official to Washington in the next few weeks to make final arrangements for access to U.S. documents concerning the Lockheed scandals. This rekindled interest in the allegations that Lockheed bribes had gone to the right-of-center Christian Social Union, the Bavarian ally of the Christian Democrats, and its longtime leader, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss...
...postwar occupation of Germany. Hauser had helped Strauss get his start in local Bavarian politics, and Strauss repaid him years later when, as Defense Minister, he asked Lockheed to put Hauser on the payroll. Since Hauser's allegations were not corroborated, the Lockheed issue was simply dropped in Bonn...
East Germany's rise to international respectability has embittered and demoralized the West Berliners who remain stranded 110 miles from the nearest Western border, and who are exposed daily to Communist pressures that sporadically explode into major incidents. Although kept alive by massive infusions of money from Bonn, West Berlin is languishing. Once a vibrant citadel, it has acquired a glum and shabby look. Even the famous Kurfurstendamm has only about six blocks of tourist-attracting brightness, and the rest looks run down and dreary...