Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although surgery was clearly called for, Barre's professorial temperament, combined with France's traditionally poor labor relations, has complicated the task. The West German steel industry had relatively little trouble gradually eliminating 100,000 jobs over the past 15 years because labor unions were consulted all along the way. But Barre's reforms were put forward as nonnegotiable, and he has refused to respond to union outcries. To be sure, the government has offered a variety of benefits to ease the pain: retraining programs, retirement at age 55, and severance pay of $11,700 for workers...
Nonetheless, the French people show little confidence in Barre. The Premier got a 36% approval rating in a poll last week, a drop of 9% in the past year. Clearly, Barre's tough economic remedies will have to be carried out with more sensitivity and imagination if he is to avoid fulfilling a prophecy by Communist Leader Georges Marchais: The people, if not the parliament, will one day reject Barre's policies...
...nearly two decades, the jutting jaw and ruggedly handsome features of Willy Brandt symbolized West Germany's rebirth from the ashes of the Third Reich. As the embattled mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966. Brandt helped guide his divided city safely past a series of crises provoked by the Communist East. Later, as Chancellor of West Germany, he boldly initiated Ostpolitik, which eased tensions with the East and earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. Most memorable for Europeans was his 1970 pilgrimage to the Warsaw ghetto memorial, where he dropped to his knees in a dramatic expression...
...past five years, while Brandt's reputation abroad remained untarnished, the radiance of his image has dimmed in West Germany. It faded even further last week with the announcement that Brandt, 65, and his Norwegian-born second wife, Rut, 58, were "taking legal steps to dissolve their marriage by mutual consent." Straitlaced Germans were saddened by the breakup of Brandt's 30-year marriage, but not terribly surprised. Rut had stood at her husband's side through a host of personal and political crises, including several of his transient flings with other women. In an interview last...
Jean Monnet: 1888-1979 he sovereign nations of the past can no longer solve the problems of the present. They cannot ensure their own progress or control their own future. And the European Community itself is only a stage on the way to the organized world of tomorrow...