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Business leaders and conservative politicians contend overhaul is overdue in a system that has made labor too costly and laborers too lazy. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sharply criticized his countrymen for undermining the work ethic that forged the postwar economic miracle. "We cannot organize our country like one big recreation park," he said. Although Europeans still treasure their blanket of social protection, "they now see its tendency to crush the economy," says French economics professor Jacques Bichot...
...sector work rolls during the 1980s, despite healthy economic growth, while millions of jobs were created in the U.S., where job security is less entrenched and benefit costs are roughly half the E.C.'s. Europe must "contain its costs and free up labor markets," argues Kenneth Clarke, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...CHRIST'S RESURRECTION. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany asked me once if I believed in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. I said, Yes, I do. He said, So do I, and if Jesus Christ was not raised from the dead, there's no hope for the human race. I hold the same view. Christianity wouldn't be Christianity without...
...when the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung asked, "What for you is complete happiness on earth?" The sensual, said Swiss writer Hans A. Pestalozzi: "Sex with a woman one loves under the smoldering heat of the sun." The mundane, said theater critic Georg Hensel: "Sole fried in butter." And former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared definitively, "There's no such thing...
Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters, a confidant of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, took responsibility for mishandling the case and resigned in July, closely followed by the chief federal prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl. The head of the antiterrorism division, Rainer Hoffmeyer, has been sharply criticized and may be forced to resign. There have been so many demands for reforming or disbanding GSG-9 that Kohl paid a highly publicized visit to the unit to praise the dead officer and deplore "attempts to make a martyr of his murderer...