Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First there was the mysterious death of Rear Admiral Hermann Lüdke, suspected of photographing NATO documents for a foreign power. Then came the suicides of four other West Germans involved in government or defense work. West German counterintelligence agents had only begun to sort all that out when Bonn admitted yet another serious-and bizarre-security gaffe. Attorney General Ludwig Martin announced that three men had been arrested for providing the Soviet Union with secret equipment, including a U.S.-designed missile, stolen from a supposedly tightly guarded NATO base...
...more recent years, fueled the post war recovery of West Germany. The Ruhr's steel furnaces and coal pits, eternally enveloped in a grimy grey haze, are still regarded as the foundation of the country's economy. Yet, almost un noticed, the concentration of new German industry has shifted south from the Ruhr to a bucolic land of rolling hills and medieval towns: the state of Baden-Württemberg, between the Rhine and Lake Constance...
...some sort of modern industry, and the state's output adds up to an impressive 17% of West Germany's total. Manufacturing accounts for 54% of Baden-Württemberg's $18 billion gross product, a higher percentage than in any of the other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those in any other area of the country. And, according to statistics recently released by Deutsches Industrieinstitut, the state capital, Stuttgart (pop. 614,000), has edged out the Ruhr's Duisburg as the German city with...
...Baden-Württemberg's third-largest enterprise, after Daimler-Benz and Bosch. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. owns Standard Elektrik Lorenz electronics company, the state's fifth-largest firm. Litton Industries, Ampex, Perkin-Elmer, Hewlett-Packard, Bendix Corp. and Hughes International are represented through their German subsidiaries...
...sign of the trend's strength is the arrival in the U.S. of European bankers similar to the march of U.S. banks into Europe during the 1950s. Within the past year, British, German, Dutch and Belgian investment and commercial bankers have considerably expanded operations in New York-the better to serve the growing European encampment...