Word: stuttgart
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...southern West Germany about 75 miles east of Stuttgart, U.S. Army Captain Terry Quinn points cheerfully at a squat, wide-track staff vehicle parked near a rural Bavarian crossroads. "That," he says, "is a tank." Nearby a sergeant fans a deck of cardboard chits with shell totals printed on them. "And this," he says, "is our ammunition...
Those gains came at the expense of the center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...
British and West German officials began exchanging information on the most violent offenders months ago in preparation for last week's eight-nation tournament. After the first match between England and Ireland in Stuttgart on June 12, which Ireland won 1-0, some 20 English thugs beat up a 22-year-old Egyptian resident, slicing him with a broken bottle. Before the evening ended, 107 people, most of them English, had been detained by police for drunkenness and fighting...
...risen by 32% over the past three years, to $29,000. As a result, U.S. sales have stalled, and the company has had to abandon its traditional take-it-or-leave-it attitude. Customers who take advantage of the Daimler-Benz offer can tour its Stuttgart factory, pick up their favorite model at a discount of up to 10% and be reimbursed for their air fare...
...international labor leader, Kluncker is spending the semester at the Kennedy Schol as the first Jerry Wurf fellow. Kluncker, who hails from Stuttgart, is conducting a seminar series on international labor issues. The study group will analyze various labor issues--including deregulation and bargaining--and the relationship between worker organizations in the East and West...