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Party chairman Gregor Gysi, who called the raids a monstrous action, said they were carried out without search warrants. Otto Lambsdorff, head of the Free Democratic Party, a partner in the coalition government in Bonn, said he learned with "extreme regret" that prosecutors had not obtained the warrants...
...Never in our history have we lived so well," says former Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff. Statistics bear him out. In the past three decades the supply of goods and services has quintupled and consumption quadrupled. The living standard since the '50s has improved at an annual rate of 4%. Net monthly income has expanded tenfold in that period, hourly wages almost eightfold. In the early '60s, the average family spent half its income on food and household goods; today the figure is slightly over 20%. Nearly as much -- 15% -- is devoted to leisure activities and holidays...
...chemical-weapons plant, local political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying that everything is so comfortable, they can try something different." A related reason, however, may be growing boredom with Kohl's stolid style...
...sale follows a major scandal in which the Flick group was alleged to have made millions of dollars' worth of secret political contributions. Former Economics Ministers Otto Lambsdorff and Hans Friderichs are currently facing charges about favorable tax credits made available to Flick. These were allegedly given in exchange for Flick's donations to political parties. A senior company manager, Eberhard von Brauchitsch, has also been implicated in the affair...
...toll of Flick victims has been growing steadily. In June, Kohl's Economics Minister, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, resigned amid accusations that he had accepted $50,000 in 1979 and 1980 in exchange for allowing the Flick firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff faces trial next January on criminal charges. In October, Rainer Barzel, president of the Bundestag and a senior member of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, also stepped down. The weekly Der Spiegel published a Bonn prosecutor's report that the Flick company had paid more than $700,000 to a Frankfurt law firm, and that...