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...ultimatum for Bonn as kidnapers and skyjackers ally
...these demands were not met, read the statement received by Bonn, "Hanns-Martin Schleyer will be shot. There will be no more extensions." In the ultimatum to the Paris daily, the terrorists warned West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "Any attempt on your part to delay or deceive us will mean immediate execution of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and all the passengers and crew of the plane...
...several hundred women are believed to have said I do to these marriages of convenience, bringing with them very valuable dowries: permanent residence and work permits for their husbands. With these documents, Gastarbeiter are almost certain of keeping their jobs in West Germany at a time when Bonn is attempting to reduce the number of foreigners working in the country...
...Spain) were welcomed by labor-hungry industries. Major reason: they willingly accepted menial jobs disdained by most West Germans. But since unemployment began to rise in late 1973, the foreigners have found themselves treated as excess baggage, even though most continue to hold jobs and gratefully work long hours. Bonn has barred German firms from hiring new Gastarbeiter from countries outside the European Community. (Common Market rules guarantee citizens of its member states freedom of movement within the Community.) The government has also imposed tough new conditions on the renewal of residence and work permits. As a result, the number...
Most of those remaining live crowded in urban slums. Nowhere is their plight more dismal than in West Berlin-a painful embarrassment for a city that proudly boasts of being the "window on the free West." After a tour of the foreign workers' quarters there, TIME Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader cabled this report...