Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eastward again - but this time with a great difference. The only expansion it seeks is economic; the only conquest it wants is over the understandable fear and hostility that still persist among the Eastern European nations that have suffered so much at Germany's hands. Last week West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger rose in the Bundestag and, speaking to the East as much as to the deputies, said: "We view the reshaping of our relations with the East as the supreme challenge of our generation...
Bypassing Ulbricht. Kiesinger's words represent quite a switch in Bonn policy, which up to now has barred normal diplomatic relations with the East-bloc countries until they first consent to German reunification. That pol icy, of course, got nowhere. Kiesinger and his coalition government realize that reunification is a long way off as matters now stand, particularly in the face of the intransigence of East Germany's old Stalinist, Walter Ulbricht. By making new moves to win the confidence of the East, they are bypassing East Germany and hoping that the Eastern bloc, once reassured that Germany...
...German tourists and businessmen, of course, are ahead of the diplomats in discovering how to get along with the East. West Germany is second only to the Soviet Union in trading with East ern Europe, second to none in sending tourists. Mercedes and Opels with West German license plates line the streets in front of the best hotels in Bucharest and Prague. In summer German tour ists bask under Bulgaria's sun at low-priced Black Sea resorts; in winter they fly down the ski trails of Rumania's Carpathian mountains or the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia...
Volkswagen President Heinz Nardhoff hopes that the smaller car will meet Germany's straitened "economic realities." With Germans uneasy about a developing recession and, in many cases, going on shorter work weeks, new-car registrations plunged 14% last November, and VW's sales at home fell to a record low of 16% of its production. The measures imposed by the hard-pressed government pushed gasoline prices up by 40 per gal., and German car-insurance companies this month raised their rates by as much...
Actually, VW has been rather slow in meeting the new need for spartan transportation. While the company was busy promoting its relatively new 1500 fastback sedan, G.M.'s and Ford's German subsidiaries were challenging the beetle at its own game. Sales of G.M.'s small, $1,360 Opel Kadett soared 28% last year, after a 6% drop in 1965. Ford last September successfully reintroduced its $1,322 Taunus 15M, a model it had dropped in 1959. When his 1200 gets into full production, Volkswagen's Nordhoff plans to skip the rich U.S. market, which accounts...