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WEST GERMANY has long feared the predominant market power of the multinationals. Even before the Yom Kippur War, the Bonn government planned to create a state-owned oil company to compete with the majors. After fighting began in the Middle East, gasoline prices in West Germany zoomed. But Willy Brandt's administration did not take countervailing action for fear that the big oil firms would sell their products elsewhere. The Economics Ministry did, however, investigate the way that the multinationals were doing business...
Shrieking Laughter. In the Bundestag building in Bonn, mobs of frenzied women raced through the corridors cutting off the neckties of male deputies in a symbolic castration proclaiming the traditional theme of "the day women rule." Similar scenes occurred in other government and business offices all over Bonn. In Beuel, a working-class suburb of the capital, women stormed the town hall, using a borrowed circus elephant to drive a wedge through the crowds...
...their political lives. All of them are, essentially, afraid to make decisions that would promote the cause of Europe for fear that they might cause momentary domestic complications. As a result, governments indulge in a depressing litany of mutual recrimination and petty squabbles. The British are sniping at the Bonn government for not providing enough money for a regional fund to aid depressed areas like Scotland; the Germans are angry with the French for floating the franc and thus trying to underprice German exports; the Dutch are still seething over Britain's sauve qui peut attitude during...
That is one reason perhaps why she has always been ready to pack in a hurry and trot off as a last-minute replacement. "You get a call in Bonn at 11 a.m. to be in Vienna to do the performance that night. I wonder if I can refresh my memory of the opera in time. Sometimes I haven't sung it for a year or two. I may listen to a tape of the opera for 20 minutes or so to see what's left in my head." What's left is usually plenty, although last...
Despite that factor, the driving bans have grievously hurt some European businesses. Sunday revenues of German hotels and restaurants have dropped as much as 30% to 70% since Sabbath driving was forbidden three weeks ago. The picturesque villages on the left bank of the Rhine between Bonn and Koblenz look all but deserted of tourists on Sundays. The Swiss ski industry is suffering; after two carless Sundays, crowds are thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government...