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While American athletes lament losing a chance at gold medals in the Moscow Olympics, U.S. competitors of different stripes and talents are gloating this week over a bonanza of coveted international awards. In Frankfurt, at the quadrennial Culinary Olympics-officially titled the International Culinary Art Exhibition-a four-man U.S. team for the first time beat out all other entrants in the hot food dish category. In the cold dish department the American squad also earned gold medals. Individual team members won a dozen golds and a silver. Pastry Chef Helmut Loibl from St. Louis was one of only...
...Vries' success is his spongelike ability to gather and absorb boundless bits of information. In his search for balance of payments data, he combs government documents and consults with officials of multinational corporations that move large amounts of money. De Vries also regularly travels to Paris, Frankfurt and London, where he enjoys an open door at central banks. Last week during the IMF meeting, he received visitors at an elegant 19th century Georgetown row house that Morgan Guaranty had rented for the occasion...
...built big cars like the Chevrolet Caprice for the North American market, and smaller ones like the Opel Rekord abroad for the foreign market. By the mid-'80s, however, there will be one world auto market. The same car is likely to be seen on the streets of Frankfurt, West Germany, and Fargo, N. Dak. The Lynx, Escort and J-cars are all such "world cars." Models will be assembled in places like Japan and South America, in addition to Detroit, from parts that are manufactured in several countries. The result will be stiffer competition among the remaining auto...
With welfare costs soaring, West Germans are getting fed up with the immigrants' abuse of their country's hospitality. A number of cities-including Frankfurt and Essen-with large populations of foreign Gastarbeiter (guest workers) and recent immigrants have declared themselves closed to any more asylum seekers. Reason: they feel they are bearing a disproportionate share of the economic burden...
Earlier this month more than 200 Afghans and Ethiopians were stranded for five days at Frankfurt airport; Mayor Walter Wallmann refused to accept them on the grounds that his city had already absorbed 8,000 asylum seekers this year, at a cost of $12 million. Eventually, the refugees were given temporary shelter at an already overcrowded camp for asylum seekers in Bavaria-the only one of its kind in West Germany. But Franz Josef Strauss, minister-president (governor) of Bavaria, has warned: "We cannot continue to push these poor people around...