Word: saarlander
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...three months, the four East German envoys and their West German counterparts had agreed that Honecker would meet with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a health spa hotel. They had even decided that the Wiebelskirchen musical corps would serenade the East German leader at his birthplace in the Saarland. With the visit less than a month away, they had come to discuss the wording of the final communiqué that both German leaders would issue at the end of the trip...
Schmidt bravely concurred, noting that a C.D.U.-F.D.P. coalition already runs the state government of the Saarland. But the prospect of shifting alliances in Berlin inevitably touched off talk of similar moves in Bonn, where F.D.P. right-wingers are increasingly impatient with the leftists in Schmidt's unruly party. That, in turn, raised a larger question in Europe's changing political climate: Giscard is gone; is Schmidt in trouble...
Steel. In steel-producing regions such as France's Lorraine, Belgium's Charleroi and Liège, West Germany's Saarland, south Wales, northern England, and Scotland, unemployment is sharply higher than national averages. Over the past three years, 61,000 jobs have been lost in the industry, leaving a worried work force...
...Free Democrats, turned the Tendenzwende around. In North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany's largest state (pop. 17 million) and industrial heartland, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats preserved their 105-to-95 seat edge over the opposition Christian Democratic Union. The same day, in elections in the Saarland, where Christian Democrats have ruled since 1947, the voters turned the C.D.U.'s 27-to-23 majority into a 25-to-25 deadlock. At week's end it was still unclear which party would be able to form a state government, but as a result of the election...
...book than expected, and Editor Paul De Angelis says, "We really don't expect a legal battle." If one comes, it may spur sales. In Germany the book sold only 6,000 copies in the first ten months, then quickly sold 6,000 more when a Saarland politician demanded that its sale be restricted...