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Brutues on the Rhine...
Britain is so hard pressed that it insists that Germany buy enough goods to offset the $215 million-per-year cost of the 55,000-man British Army of the Rhine. Otherwise, they intend to start immediate reductions, trimming the BAOR by perhaps 50% within the next 18 months...
...outraged Butchers' Guild of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany last week rallied under the slogan, "What's all this about the Neckermann pig?" Josef Neckermann, 54, the country's mail-order wizard, once again upset retailers, this time by offering through the mail half a pig for deepfreezing at half the price the pork would normally cost in the neighborhood butcher shop...
Troubles have been piling up for Ludwig Erhard ever since his Christian Democrats suffered a severe setback in July's state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. Critics inside and outside his own party have blamed him for everything from a revolt within Germany's top military command to the sinking of an overage U-boat in the North...
...formal burial of the MLF will add to the Chancellor's political problems in Germany. Erhard's position has become increasingly delicate as a result of his Christian Democratic Union's defeat in the important North Rhine Wesphalia state elections. The Armed Forces crisis over the pressure from German generals for more authority within the defense establishment has furnished the Social Democratic opposition with powerful ammunition against Erhard's government. And Germans in general are worried about the possibility of U.S. troop withdrawals, and doubt the determination of this country to defend them in case of Russian attack...