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...August Thyssen-Hotte...
...representatives (who include not only unionists but government officials and even, in one case, a banker considered sympathetic to labor) have been notably cooperative, and probably deserve some of the credit for having kept the German economic boom remarkably free of strikes. The ten labor directors of steelmaking August Thyssen-Hütte approved a takeover of troubled competitor Rheinstahl, which is still awaiting Common Market clearance, knowing that it would mean the elimination of some duplicate jobs. Says Thyssen Director Karl-Heinz Weihs, who worked as a roll-turner for eleven years: "If we hurt the profitability...
...delivered or contracted to deliver equipment for Russia's coal, chemical, natural gas, steel, truck, electronics and toolmaking industries. Since 1970. West German banks have provided about $800 million in credit so that the Soviet Union could barter natural gas from Siberia for steel pipes from Mannesmann and Thyssen. Brezhnev wants to make more such deals...
Even Aristotle Onassis has trouble with the kids, what with Christina, 20, getting married last summer to 47-year-old Los Angeles Real Estate Broker Joe Bolker, and Alexander, 23, going steady with 39-year-old Divorcee Fiona Thyssen. Onassis, though, has a kind of authority not given to all parents: a multimillion-dollar trust fund that Alexander and Christina will begin to enjoy on Dec. 11-provided Daddy Ari approves. Alexander has begun dismissing talk about Fiona as "nonsense," and Christina has gone off to London, leaving Husband Bolker at home to cancel the invitations he had sent...
...firms of Mannesmann and Thyssen will deliver 1,200,000 tons of 56-inch steel pipe, designed to withstand extreme cold, to Russia. The Soviets need it for pipelines to open the natural gas reserves of Siberia, the world's richest. In return, the Soviets will send to West Germany 52 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years, starting in 1973. To enable the Soviets to pay for the pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm...