Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production has dropped 25% from 1966's record high of 1,476,000 vehicles. Like U.S. automakers, the company has been hit by the safety scare. In the mini-motor field, which its beetles long dominated, VW is getting serious competition from General Motors' Opel and the German Ford. Nordhoff has been fighting the pinch with stepped-up exports and a new, cheaper ($1,121) 41 h.p. Model 1200 that he christened Wirt-schaftskrise Kafer, or "economic crisis beetle." With all that, his successor, Kurt Lotz, 54, will have plenty of problems...
...those problems-and more. Son of a Hessian farmer, he became a Luftwaffe general-staff major assigned to assessing war needs. "That was my first strong contact with industrial planning," he says. At war's end he took a clerk's job in Mannheim with the German subsidiary of the Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri & Cie, which makes all kinds of electrical equipment from home appliances to locomotives. Within twelve years, Lotz rose to chairman. He and the Swiss fell out over a small computer company in which he had invested to compete with U.S. computer makers, only...
Ever since the Berlin Wall went up, East Germany's Communist government has been pressuring the country's Evangelical Church to break its ties with Protestantism in West Germany. Last week, in a remarkable act of defiance against their Red bosses, East German Protestant leaders unanimously voted to maintain the union-and then went on to join with their West German counterparts in electing a new chairman of the All-German Church Council...
Both actions took place at the annual synods of the two churches, which met under difficult conditions. In the past, the two branches of Protestantism have gathered in different sectors of divided Berlin, and some West Germans have been allowed to visit their brethren in the east. This time, Communist officials forced the East German synod to meet at Fiirstenwalde, 20 miles from Berlin-and made it clear ahead of time that they expected the meeting to end in a formal schism (TIME, April...
Strength from the Lord. Their hopes were bluntly disappointed. Addressing the opening session of the East German synod, Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krum-macher of Greifswald warned: "If Christians, who are limbs of the one Lord, and who belong together as limbs of one church, are no longer allowed to be mentioned in one breath, it is no longer an institutional question but a matter of the unity of faith in one Lord...