Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Wehner, the strong-willed Socialist tactician, wants to outlaw them under the clause in the Bonn constitution that bans anti-democratic parties. But Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and most of his Christian Democrats would rather get at the National Democrats through a change in the electoral laws. At present, Germans vote for a party, not a person, and seats in the Bundestag are allocated according to the percentage of the national vote won by each of the parties. Kiesinger wants to change to the Anglo-American system, in which a voter in a constituency casts his ballot for one candidate...
...squandering the money on palaces, limousines and concubines, the rulers of the four Persian Gulf states today split the oil-based riches between imported consumer goods (food, clothing, shelter) for their populace, new facilities such as water systems, hospitals and other public buildings, and investment (including U.S. and West German bonds). Saudi Arabia, which had hardly any schools ten years ago, is now building 300 a year. Argentina owes its status as the only South American country with a 1967 payments surplus to good corn and meat prices on world markets plus pruning of its government deficit and an economic...
...trade, which means that shifts in one big national economy can inflict much damage on neighbors. Because West Germany's recession led to a sharp drop in imports and a surge of exports, both Belgium and The Netherlands suffered payments deficits in 1966, rebounding last year only after German business picked up again. Italy paid a heavy price in unemployment and bankruptcies to achieve a payments surplus starting in 1964. Having taken that medicine, the country has swung into a new boom providing more jobs, consumer goods and little inflation...
...grim Gestapo type in boots and a belted leather coat began to lecture in German-accented English: "Businessmen, you have perhaps noticed that Hertz has been ticking along like a fine watch lately. This is no accident. This is the result of training and discipline." He pushed through a steel door that clanked shut, and conducted a tour of the concrete block: "There we take the men who service the cars and turn them into fanatics. And in this area, we are building a super troop of car attendants." The 60-second commercial, viewed during the Dean Martin show...
...Earl of Suffolk (a descendant of Sir Philip Sidney), who appeared in Macmillan's office as an unshaven civilian desperado, having just performed the highly uncivil service of hijacking a cargo of industrial diamonds, French scientists, Norwegian heavy water, and American machine tools from under the German guns...