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Ordinarily it takes decades to build an industrial behemoth on the scale of General Electric, West Germany's Siemens or Japan's Hitachi, but last week a world-class electrical-engineering giant was born practically overnight. In a surprise strategic move, two smaller European competitors -- Switzerland's Brown, Boveri and...
^ The first victim was Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, who was pulled out of his cab in the West Beirut slum of Ouzai by two carloads of pistol-wielding terrorists. Three days later, Alfred Schmidt, an engineer for Siemens, the giant West German electronics firm, was rousted from bed...
Karl Heinz Beckurts knew that the terrorist Red Army Faction had marked him for death. The director of research and technology at Siemens, the West German electronics giant, he had hired security guards, barred windows and installed alarms at his villa in Strasslach, south of Munich. Last week Beckurts, 56...
The obstacles to high-technology progress are formidable. Despite the unifying efforts of the European Community, economic nationalism thrives, fragmenting the West European market and isolating consumers behind political boundaries. Even some of the biggest companies-The Netherlands' Philips, West Germany's Siemens and Italy's Olivetti...
The disclosure of IBM standards could free Europe's computer makers from a trap of their own creation. Firms such as France's Bull and West Germany's Siemens have fallen behind U.S. and Japanese rivals partly because they have insisted on separate standards that have isolated...