Word: lambsdorffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...clocks in Bonn stood at 15 minutes to midnight when Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff appeared at the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week to tender his resignation. The outspoken Lambsdorff, 57, who had spent nearly seven years in the key Cabinet post, is expected soon to be formally charged by the Bonn public prosecutor's office with accepting $50,000 on behalf of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) from the Flick Holding Co. in exchange for allowing the firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff, who will retain his seat in the Bundestag, insisted on his innocence. "The charges...
Kohl praised Lambsdorff, then moved quickly to replace him. The Chancellor's choice: Martin Bangemann, 49, a lawyer and maverick F.D.P. leader from Baden-Wurttemberg. Bangemann became available for the Economics portfolio after he lost his seat in the European Parliament in elections two weeks...