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...western unions refuse to see that anything they get will be swallowed by inflation," says Meinhard Miegel, head of the Institute for Economy and Society, a Bonn think tank. "They will do nobody any good, not even themselves." Kohl has tried, in vain, to tell workers that. "The simple fact is that we cannot live beyond our means in the long term," he said. "Everyone must be aware that everything now pushed through on the wages side beyond a reasonable level is definitely no longer available for investment and jobs...
When journalists dig for the darker side of Schwarzenegger's youth, something is there that makes him angry. Arnold, a tattly biography by British free-lancer Wendy Leigh, asserts that Schwarzenegger's father joined the Nazi Party in 1938 and that his older brother Meinhard died in a car crash after drinking heavily. Schwarzenegger attended the funeral of neither man. Leigh also charges Arnold with brutal practical jokes, coarse womanizing and relentless taunting of opponents in his body-building days. The star has dismissed Leigh's contentions, saying, "I don't want to give a third-grade journalist any credibility...
...Meinhard Miegel, director of Bonn's Institute for Economic and Social Research, argues that although suspicion of Germany is understandable, it is unfounded. The Germans have "paid a high price for the lessons of history and have created one of the most liberal and democratic societies" in the world, he says...
...other Olympic action prior to last night's closing ceremonies, an East German team led by Meinhard Nehmer won the four-man bobsled competition in record time...
Mozart: Idomeneo, Rè di Creta (soloists and chorus of the Vienna State Opera, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Meinhard von Zallinger conducting; the Haydn Society, 8 sides LP). The 13th of his 22 theater works, Idomeneo was Mozart's favorite-if no one else's; it has only had one U.S. production, at the Berkshire Music Center (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947). Although there is much to marvel at, most listeners will find Idomeneo loaded with tiresome recitative and lacking in the sparkle of Don Giovanni or The Marriage of Figaro. Performance and recording: good...