Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Siemens and Telefunken electronics plants, its razor-blade factories and other industries are also sending salesmen behind the Iron Curtain. Last month East Germany ordered 1,500 railroad cars and $12.5 million worth of cable from West Berlin; the city in turn bought milk from nearby East German state farms, despite vehement objections from West Germany's powerful farmers' union...
Among the non-western adventure shows is Garrison's Gorillas (ABC), a World War II drama about a U.S. platoon of temporarily paroled cons working behind German lines. For those who have not seen Mission: Impossible on TV or The Professionals and The Dirty Dozen in the movies, Garrison's Filthy Foursome might have some appeal; the video Nazis, however, are shown to be so inept that it is a wonder the war lasted so long...
...tower. Last week the finals were staged in Bardenberg, Germany. By then the entrepreneurs had run short of ideas, so the liveliest moments came with the so-called "fruit bowl" game, in which contestants tried to break balloons by rocking up and down in an animal cutout. The German team won the $12,150 grand prize. Runner-up France received a 200-pound salami, compliments of the Bardenberg sausage industry...
...virtual information blackout. Newsmen are not allowed to leave the capital, and every dispatch must be shown to the Foreign Ministry before it is sent. A.F.P. cables can take up to 20 hours to reach Paris, where the news agency translates and transmits them in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as French. As a result U.S. announcements of bombings in North Viet Nam usually scoop A.F.P. coverage. The dispatches sometimes sound prejudiced, since they must pass Hanoi eyes, but they do provide on-the-spot, visual confirmation of the raids. In addition, they report the comings and goings...
...special session of the Bundestag, German lawmakers last week nodded their approval of Mifrifi,* a pro gram of stern tax measures and lower government spending designed to elim inate a $16 billion budget deficit for 1968-71. Paradoxically, they also approved an extraordinary budget for a $1.3 billion public-works program. Both moves were part of an effort to boost the German economy from the recession that began last fall...