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...deodorants. By next year, consumers will be able to return sales packaging -- from yogurt cups to meat wrappers -- to the point of purchase for disposal. In mid-1995 German manufacturers will be responsible for collecting 80% of their packaging waste. Augmenting the government's program is the Duales System Deutschland, a private-industry-initiative recycling program that has already distributed collection bins to more than half of Germany's 80 million people and expects to reach virtually 100% before the end of the year...
Just a few months ago, Germany seemed to be chugging along in its now- traditional role as the Continent's locomotive, pulling the European Community toward ever higher performance. But now the "Deutschland Express" has stalled and is expected to stay that way for much...
Other leading party cadres are suffering for their sins. Gunter Schabowski, a former editor of the party newspaper Neues Deutschland, recently suffered the humiliation of being rejected for a menial job at the city's waterworks. But he may have been relatively fortunate. Another red Bonze (bigwig) was reportedly seen washing dishes at Berlin's Grand Hotel -- rather like those exiled archdukes from czarist Russia who eked out a living as waiters and doormen in post-1918 Paris...
...fact, the old national anthem that begins "Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles" is forbidden precisely because the lyrics make reference to Polish territory. (The popular perception that the phrase "Germany over everything" was deemed too jingoistic is false; the song is a 19th century liberal anthem that refers to the sovereignty of the German nation over its constituent states...
...soccer fans trudged past me in Munich, I heard a group of them singing. Thinking of the patriotic euphoria after the U.S.'s ice hockey victory in 1980, and I strained to hear the words. Instead of "Deutschland, Deutschland Ueber Alles," I heard, "We're going to drink for seven days straight...