Word: bundestag
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...Germans have no hard evidence of criminality but an abiding fear of extremism in any form. The Christian Democrats call Scientology "totalitarian." A Social Democratic member of the Bundestag says it is "fascist." When a German delegation met with U.S. officials on the issue late last year, the Americans argued that if there is evidence of illegality, the Scientologists should be prosecuted under existing laws. The Germans replied that, well, there wasn't enough evidence for a trial, but even so, their government "has a responsibility to protect its citizens." Washington agrees that the lid should be kept on dangerous...
They're talking about it in the Bundestag and they're petrified of it in Beijing. In Washington, DC, they like it, but fear it will spiral out of control. Governments around the globe have caught Internet fever and are struggling to regulate this new electronic behemoth...
Well, possibly a larger majority. He and his partners from the Christian Social Union and the Free Democratic Party will control the new 672-member Bundestag by only 10 seats -- a drop of 124 from four years ago. No one has forgotten how swiftly and confidently Kohl engineered Germany's unification, but this electoral decline is about what has happened since then. It marks the price he paid for a steep post-union recession, now ending, and the resentment felt in both eastern and western Germany over the high cost of bringing them together. Even so, unified Germany stuck with...
...aging population, Kohl sought to finance long-term nursing care by dropping up to six days of the sick pay workers get. The idea provoked a minicrisis in his coalition, forcing him to back off; an alternate plan to slash holiday pay 20% was passed by the Bundestag over strike threats...
...point out that the experiment Hall and Stillman conducted -- cloning a human embryo -- would be considered a federal offense in Germany, punishable by up to five years in prison. "The Americans do not even have our scruples," complained Rudolf Dressler, deputy whip of the Social Democratic opposition in the Bundestag. "They simply go ahead with research, cost what it may." More than 25 countries have commissions that set policy on reproductive technology. In Britain, cloning human cells requires a license the governing body refuses to grant. Violators face up to 10 years in prison. In Japan all research on human...