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...taxes and import licensing. "We couldn't ship any steel into Japan if we gave it away," complains Chairman Edward J. Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. "It's embargoed." Similar protectionist obstacles cover hundreds of products, from U.S. coal (barred from Britain and the West German Ruhr) to whisky (which cannot be advertised in France). These problems highlight the fact that nontariff barriers now loom as the foremost remaining obstruction to trade...
...smoke after Von Hassel failed to consult him before ruling-of all things-that labor union organizers could enter military camps to recruit career enlisted men and officers for their ranks. The third resignation came from Major General Giinther Pape, the commander of West Germany's Ruhr-encompassing Third Defense District, who is a close friend of Trettner...
...living went up 4.5% during the twelve months that ended in April. Spending by government, both federal and state, was bloated by 12% in 1965, much more than the still substantial growth of 8.4% in the gross national product. Erhard himself has been booed by coal miners in the Ruhr, whose industry is threatened by the Europe-wide revolution in oil, natural gas and atomic energy. The coal malaise has spread to steel-partly because the steel companies themselves produce 40% of West German coal-with the result that Krupp and other producers have begun to cut back working hours...
Kumpel Chorus. For one thing, the Socialists won wide sympathy with their proposed speakers' exchange with East Germany on the question of reunification. Perhaps more important was the record oversupply of 21 million tons of coal, which stands in ominous black mountains from Bottrop to Bochum. To the Ruhr, it brought the fear of mine closings, short shifts and layoffs. The big steel firms are running at a scant 80% of production capacity. Add to that the perennial German fear of inflation, and the fact that living costs rose 4.4% in the past year, and the stage...
...undergo agony when their cars are serviced. "When the mechanic goes underneath," says an executive of the DEMAG heavy-machinery works, "I go with him. I must see what he is doing." Steel Magnate Alfried Krupp takes three days off each year to drive his Porsche 911 from the Ruhr to the plant in Stuttgart, where he stands by in overalls while his car is being tuned. Few Germans will lend their cars even to their closest friends...