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Word: industrieverwaltung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1983-1983
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...political survival, and with it the ability of the Kohl government to retain public confidence. The investigators charged that from 1975 to 1981 Friderichs and Lambsdorff had accepted nearly $200,000 from West Germany's largest privately owned industrial concern, the Düsseldorf-based Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung, in exchange for granting the firm generous tax exemptions. Lambsdorff, 56, is a respected member of the Free Democratic Party, the minority partner in Kohl's Christian Democrat-dominated government, and an architect of Bonn's plans for economic recovery. He promptly denied any wrongdoing, protesting, "I never received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Count Down | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

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