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...about 2,000 old films that can be sold to cable TV. MGM executives also want to control United Artists' worldwide distribution network, since they will now collect the distributor's 30% cut of their movies' gross ticket sales. Says Merrill Lynch Vice President Harold Vogel: "The merger means MGM will be a stronger competitor...
West Berlin's elections were held two years early because a scandal over municipal building contracts forced the resignation of S.P.D. Mayor Dietrich Stobbe last January. To halt the decline of the S.P.D. in its onetime bastion, Schmidt had sent his federal justice minister, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, to take over as mayor and prepare for new elections. A popular former mayor of Munich widely regarded as Schmidt's heir apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll...
...Vogel could not carry the party with him. The city's young people - their ranks swollen because Berlin residents get draft deferments - blamed the S.P.D. for an acute shortage of decent, affordable housing, and they rebelled against police suppression of those who protest on the streets against these conditions. Their elders held the Social Democrats responsible for the breakdown of law-and-order arising from clashes between police and demonstrators...
...Vogel was the only one of the three panelists to express pessimism over the U.S. public's ability to recognize and respond to the depth of the challenge posed by Japanese economic power on the U.S.'s position in the world. He cited Japan's recent surge in shipping and in the semi-conductor industry as examples of its increasing preeminence...
...member of the audience asked the panel how the U.S. could overcome not only the shortage of engineers that Vogel referred to, but also its excess of lawyers, which he called, "not only unproductive, but literally counteractive...