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Holding signs saying "Morgan Lewis, Merchant of Fear" and "Morgan Lewis, Pinstriped Bully," protesters marched from Pound Hall to the hotel, shouting "Hey, hey, ho, ho, union busting's got to go" and handing out literature about the company...
...currency traders who knocked the British pound and Italian lira out of the E.C.'s monetary system two weeks ago displayed their own doubts about the future by selling off French francs in favor of German marks. French President Francois Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, after conferring in Paris, vowed to work together, and their central banks jointly supported the franc...
...Britain an impassioned parliamentary debate last week revealed the public's deep unease about the agreement in the wake of a devaluation of the pound that has shaken the government's economic policies. "Maastricht does not create a superstate," said Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. "But the feeling among Europe's people -- the real people -- is that it does...
...wave of fear over German domination that has been building ever since unification swelled the size and wealth of its rich neighbor. Britain, roused to resentment by the Bundesbank's indifference to the disruptive effects of the high interest rates, felt it had no choice but to take the pound out of the European monetary system two weeks...
...highest officials of the British government have accused Germany of a "whispering campaign" and conspiracy to push the pound sterling out of ERM. They have also charged that this campaign is part of a "secret pact" between the French and German governments to go ahead with Maastricht over the objections of their European partners, not to mention substantial sections of their own populations...