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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fearing a long shortage, American buyers of new cars are making such a run on diesel-fueled Volkswagen Rabbits and Mercedes-Benz models that in some cases delivery takes up to six months. Customers have been willing to pay $2,000 above list price to get a Rabbit...
...draft machinery oiled up. Going one big step further, General Bernard W. Rogers, the Army's Chief of Staff, favors calling up about 75,000 to 100,000 young men a year, keeping them on active service for several months, and then assigning them to the IRR for six years...
...adulation is being converted into cash: only six days after Connally announced his candidacy, he met the requirements for federal campaign-matching funds by receiving donations of $5,000 or more in 20 states. His war chest bulges with $1.25 million in contributions, more than Reagan has collected. Far more volunteers are trying to board Connally's bandwagon than his underorganized staff can absorb...
That bit of gallows humor was part of Bonn's reaction to the Federal Republic's latest espionage scandal. In the past two weeks, six West German secretaries of high-ranking officials have been accused of spying for East Germany. The most recent suspect is Helga Rödiger, 44, who worked for Manfred Lahnstein, state secretary in the Finance Ministry and Bonn's top expert on monetary affairs. Last week, after she failed to show up for work, agents of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI, discovered that...
West German officials believe that the husbands or paramours of all six spying secretaries were East German control agents. As it happens, even before the latest defections, Bonn had launched a campaign to tighten its security system; it included a special warning for unmarried female employees. Posters in government buildings show a man nuzzling a woman. The caption: "There is a code word that opens safes: love." Beneath that: "Your partner has been married for a long time-to the East German state security service. Please think about...