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...repair the damaged Alliance, Johnson hopes to hold bilateral talks in Washington next year with Erhard, Douglas-Home and De Gaulle. But the French are already beginning to hint that since De Gaulle was just in the U.S., Johnson ought to visit Paris-presumably as a pilgrim to the Delphic shrine...
...working mothers get three months' pregnancy leave at full pay, plus more paid vacation if they nurse the baby. Bonn's vested interest in breast feeding is the result of the most thorough welfare state in the West, with the possible exception of Sweden. Though Ludwig Erhard's Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) has sometimes created the impression that West Germany is a wonderland of freewheeling laissez faire, the German people are in fact pampered and cosseted with social benefits from maternity to eternity. But today, for the first time, Germans are beginning to grumble at the exorbitant cost...
...legislation usually stayed on the books while new measures were piled on. Konrad Adenauer continued to build the welfare state, often adding benefits at election time. Since 1950, the cost of the social program has quadrupled to 12.5 billion dollars, creating what looms as the biggest headache in Erhard's administration...
Pained Status Seekers. Faced with the growing costs of defense and domestic development, Chancellor Erhard would like to overhaul the entire program with a new Sozialpaket (social package). With more than 800,000 jobs going begging, unemployment insurance is largely an anachronism; last year, employers were actually exempted from their mandatory contributions. In 1961, six weeks a year of sick leave at full pay became compulsory, and since then industrial absenteeism has skyrocketed; the healthiest workers are apt to claim their six weeks as a sort of extra vacation...
...attempt to take anything out of the social package is met with violent attacks from both left and right. Example: last week when Erhard attempted to spread out an additional $300 million for war victims over two years, instead of paying it all at once, his own party bitterly attacked him in Parliament. The Socialists and the trade unions fear that any reform will mean less overall income for employees. Businessmen, on the other hand, are convinced that if the government reduces its welfare expenditures, they will have to make up the difference out of their own pockets. Though both...