Word: haferkamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year. In addition the commissioners were paid $2.1 million in salaries and allowances. The auditors turned up such items as Jenkins' $3,842 bill for liquor consumed in his Brussels office, Danish Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach's $126,993 transportation tab, and West German Commissioner Wilhelm Haferkamp's $39,976 entertainment claim. When the auditors asked Haferkamp for guest lists of his lavish lunches at such Brussels luxury restaurants as the Ecailler du Palais Royal, he withdrew 23 of the bills, explaining that he could not remember whom he had invited...
...Haferkamp, in fact, whose expense account artistry had provoked the European Parliament into ordering the audit earlier this year. Members of Parliament had been dismayed by reports that he had given a $14,000 cocktail party in Caracas and run up a $2,000 bill for three nights spent in New York City's Pierre hotel. Last year, he took a woman friend on a trip to Peking as an official interpreter at E.C. expense and over Budget Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat's objections. Though the woman was multilingual, she happened to speak not a word of Chinese...
...letter to U.S. Chief Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss carried the strident ring of an ultimatum. Signed by Wilhelm Haferkamp, the German vice president of the European Community, and approved in advance by the Foreign Ministers of the nine member nations, it brusquely warned Washington that the Nine would retaliate if the U.S. began collecting extra import duties on a wide variety of their products. It also intimated that the Community would walk out of the three-year-old Tokyo Round trade talks, thus scuttling any possibility for their successful conclusion. What could follow, Haferkamp wrote, would be "a trade...
...reason for the European threat is a fast approaching deadline, which Haferkamp terms a time bomb. On Jan. 3, 1979, unless Congress passes a special bill delaying action, the U.S. customs service will begin collecting so-called countervailing duties on a long list of imported goods, headed by Danish canned hams and including a variety of European dairy products, such as Dutch Edam and French Camembert. Later the tariffs might be extended to many more items, including steel and perhaps some cars...
...interim bill that would delay the duties. To his dismay, he found the mood on Capitol Hill running so strong against freer trade that he feared the bill would be either killed or encrusted with various protectionist amendments. He reported this to the Europeans and received the rocket from Haferkamp...