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...going on strike on Thursday. "It's a black day for Opel," says Klaus Franz, leader of the company's works council. "The strikes will start in Germany, and then they'll spread across Europe on Friday." Thousands of workers gathered at the carmaker's plant in Rüsselsheim to vent their anger at the aborted sale. Roland Koch, governor of the state of Hesse, told the workers that GM couldn't be trusted and that he would fight to save every German job. The strike coincided with GM's announcement that it would shed 10,000 positions...
...state guarantees for Opel of up to $6.4 billion. In return, the Germans wanted GM to agree to sell a 55% stake in Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium. At first GM seemed to be playing ball. It spun off Opel into a trust to protect the Rüsselsheim-based manufacturer from GM's Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. (Read "Ron Bloom Monitors GM - and Eyes the Exit...
...from Fiat was just an attempt, as one union official put it, to "pinch German engineering." The unions regard Magna as an innovative company that put forward the best plan to secure the long-term future of Opel. At the carmaker's headquarters in the town of Rüsselsheim near Frankfurt, workers were hugging friends and colleagues outside the factory on Saturday when news of the deal broke. Many were surprised the German government finally stepped in to save the traditional carmaker Opel in the nick of time, just before its parent company, the U.S. car giant, GM, went...
...manager and seven oarsmen of Yugoslavia's Olympic rowing team, over Marshal Tito, by announcing they would not go home, but hoped instead to find asylum until Canada lets them in as immigrants; in Rüsselsheim, Germany...
...trial droned on. The U.S. military judges heard how the eleven defendants, all citizens of Rüsselsheim, had lynched the fliers in a spasm of revenge. The court's verdict: freedom for one defendant, long imprisonment for three, death for seven. Among them: Frau Witzler. She was an old woman; she must have been a big girl when Adolf Hitler, the Führer, was born...