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...West Germany, as elsewhere in Europe, TIME correspondents have been faced with lower speed limits and a ban on Sunday driving. Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan views the restrictions as a blessing, pointing out that gasoline in West Germany now costs about $1.20 a gallon. Correspondent Christopher Byron has responded to the crisis by turning off heat in his Bonn home during the day and setting the thermostat to 50° at night. Last week the Byron family sat down to Thanksgiving dinner dressed in overcoats...
...object of the exercise was less to mete out justice than to pressure the Bonn government into cracking down on the flourishing business of helping East Germans, principally highly trained professionals like doctors and engineers, to escape to the West. Stiff jail sentences were part of the message. One of the accused, a West Berlin seaman named Karl-Heinz Hetzschold, 30, got 11½ years for damaging East German interests and illegal profiteering. The lightest sentence was seven years for long-haired Hans-Dieter Voss...
Western newsmen were invited to ensure maximum publicity. They heard carefully orchestrated testimony that the people-smugglers-who allegedly worked for commercial organizations that charged up to $8,000 to arrange escapes-had been in collusion with the Bonn government and the West Berlin senate...
...charged that West Germany had allowed the people-smugglers to take advantage of relaxed controls on access routes running through East Germany that linked West Berlin to West Germany. To Honecker, this violated "the letter and spirit" of the 1971 transit agreement between the two Germanys, which makes Bonn responsible for preventing misuse of the routes...
...flat no from allies was only the beginning of Washington's bill of complaints. Bonn made it clear that it did not much like the U.S.'s supplying Israel through West German ports but it did nothing to stop the flow so long as the fighting was going on. Once the cease-fire was announced, however, Chancellor Willy Brandt's West German government politely asked the U.S. to quit using its ports. Finally, embarrassed by a reporter's inquiry about an Israeli ship that was loading arms at Bremerhaven, West German Foreign Ministry State Secretary Paul...