Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also boosting effectiveness are the 15 additional KC-135 Stratotankers to be sent to Europe next year, which permit more U.S. warplanes to stay aloft longer. Greater firepower. The two U.S. armored cavalry regiments stationed on the East German border have been replacing their aging Sheridan tanks with factory-fresh M60s. These fire faster and more accurately than the Sheridans and carry the latest night-fighting devices. U.S. antitank capability has been bolstered by ten helicopter companies, each with 21 new Cobras, armed with the TOW missile. U.S. ground forces are receiving extra field guns and a new multipurpose artillery...
...more forward strategy. To avoid being caught far from the front in a blitz attack, a number of U.S. units have been shifted closer to the East German border. The most important redeployment is the transfer, still under way, of the 2nd Armored Division's powerful "Forward" Brigade from Grafenwöhr in the south to a new base outside Bremen. These are the first U.S. combat units to be permanently stationed in the North German Plain since the Occupation era. In this perfect tank country, through which invaders from the east are expected to come, the U.S. reinforces...
...possessed a certain passionate rationality. In the 17th century, Russian Orthodox dissenters called the Old Believers refused to accept liturgical reforms. Over a period of years some 20,000 peasants in protest abandoned their fields and burned themselves. In East Africa before World War I, when Tanganyika was a German colony, witch doctors of the Maji-Maji movement convinced tribesmen that German bullets would turn to water; they launched an uprising, and the credulous were slaughtered...
...cause, of the sluggishness is the decline of three basic industries?steel, textiles and shipbuilding?that provide 4.3 million European jobs. Many companies in these ailing sectors have grown too unwieldy and inefficient to compete in a changing world. To survive, they must shrink, evolve and innovate. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "There is no reason for losing our heads, but the seriousness of the situation is not to be underrated...
...wrenching industrial changes are stirring worker protest. Last week, their jobs in jeopardy, West German steelworkers were threatening to strike to back up their demands for shorter hours. Meanwhile, the Belgian government took over a large part of that country's steel industry. In September, French steelworkers called a one-day strike against a government plan to rescue their industry from bankruptcy by, among other means, eliminating up to 30,000 jobs over the next five years. Textile workers in France's Vosges region earlier staged an angry march through factory towns to protest the downfall of the once mighty...