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...throughput has soared from 215.4 million bbl. annually to 453.6 million. Making this possible is Europoort's strategic location: five industrialized nations, with a total population of 168 million, are within 400 miles. Refined oil is loaded into trucks and rail cars, hauled inland by barge along the Rhine and Meuse rivers or transshipped by vessel. Crude oil can also be sent through a pipeline that cuts cross-country to Frankfurt. Next year a new pipe line to the Ruhr promises to pump 40 million tons annually, which will double the present line's capacity...
When he was overruled, Schröder carried his fight from the Defense Ministry, newly housed in a gleaming complex above the Rhine that has inevitably been nicknamed the Pentabonn, into the public arena. He leaked to the press that the cuts would mean a reduction of 60,000 men in the German army. The calculation was his own and not necessarily accurate, since the reductions could be taken in equipment as well as men. Still, the ensuing headlines brought the desired result. Washington, irritated that Kiesinger had not informed it in advance of the budget reduction...
...that cheery, beery Munich, with its renowned art galleries and swinging student quarter, or perhaps the hothouse glitter of West Berlin, might offer the most congenial milieu for artists. Hardly anyone would think of busy Düsseldorf, a conglomeration of shimmering steel-and-glass office buildings on the Rhine that epitomizes the commercial hubbub of the Wirtschaftswunder. Nonetheless, the lion's share of West Germany's most adventurous artists today find in Düsseldorf just the setting they need. Says Munich's grand old man of art, onetime Neue Pinakotek Director Dr. Eberhard Hanfstaengl...
...Force squadrons (7,000 men and some 100 fighter aircraft-mostly supersonic F-4 Phantoms); they will remain on instant alert for return to West Germany within two weeks in the event of a Soviet attack. Britain negotiated a 10% reduction of its 55,000-man Army of the Rhine, long a drain on Whitehall's sterling reserves. At the same time, the Bundesbank agreed to refrain from converting U.S. dollars into gold, and promised to honor its purchase of $500 million worth of 41% Treasury bonds - in effect a capital import for Washington -through...
Television carried the pontifical Requiem Mass throughout Western Europe, beyond the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, by satellite to the U.S. and parts of Asia. After the ceremony, German Catholic and Protestant churchmen and the visiting dignitaries followed the coffin the 385 yards from the cathedral to the Rhine, where it was placed aboard a German navy patrol boat for a 20-mile trip upstream to Adenauer's village of Rhondorf. There, in a private hillside cemetery, his body was lowered into a grave alongside the flower-decked ones of his two wives and infant...