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...Bush personally, whom a U.S. diplomat ruefully calls the "toxic Texan." His rhetoric plays better in Crawford than in Calais. Across the Atlantic, his style grates: Europeans are offended by his swagger, tough talk and invocations of God and evil. "People in Germany feel threatened by such wording," says Ludger Volmer, foreign affairs spokesman for the Green Party, and they dislike identifying an enemy with evil, oneself with good. "Politicians here," says Gerald Duchaussoy, 27, a Paris office worker, "don't speak with his language." Many Europeans have no patience with the argument that Bush is adopting a tough...
...August 1964 Klein sent Dodd the draft of a letter that he wanted dispatched-over Dodd's signature-to Dr. Ludger Westrick, an aide to Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and a key figure in the dispute about the continuation of Klein's contracts. "Please destroy this letter," Klein added. "I made no copy." Dodd duly sent Westrick the missive, which oozed polysaturated praise of Klein in Klein's own words ("He has the confidence of my Democratic and Republican colleagues and is especially close to our leaders"), but preserved copies of the correspondence because he saw nothing "sinister...
...jobs between faiths. Since Protestants will probably hold most major Cabinet posts, Erhard is under pressure to appoint Catholics to several powerful positions. For Minister of Economics, the job in which he himself won national acclaim as Wirtschaftswunderonkel (Uncle Boom), Erhard wants his longtime No. 2 man, able Ludger Westrick, despite demands from the party that the coveted post should go to a politician rather than a civil servant...
...Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...
...Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill employees from hundreds of applicants. Within a few days, they will...