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...dish of bureaucratic caution, simply laying out the facts and calling no names. It says Scientologists have been barred from joining major German parties like the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democrats and that some who joined earlier are being purged. The state of Baden-Wurttemberg has ordered its equivalent of the FBI to put a watch on church members. Bavaria is screening them out of the state civil service and says it will deny funds to events that feature performers who are Scientologists. Cruise and jazz pianist Chick Corea, also a member of the U.S. church, have been...
...Their main focus," says a report by the security service of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg, "will be information gathering in the scientific- technical realm." Agents from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania are still operating in Germany, says the report, as are those from China, "especially at universities." In a warning that probably applies to all industrialized nations, the German security report says Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria are running clandestine intelligence operations aimed at "the development of atomic, biological and chemical weapons...
...elections last month, the ruling Socialists won a paltry 18% of the vote. In Italy last week the Christian Democrats and their three coalition partners lost their governing majority. In Germany xenophobic rightists slithered into two state parliaments, breaking the single-party control of the Christian Democrats in Baden-Wurttemberg. The opposition Social Democrats barely avoided the same fate in Schleswig-Holstein...
...modern furnishings in Unterfohring, says people are investing heavily in home decoration as well: a Rolf Sachs chair goes for $5,900, a chest of drawers by Shiro Kuramata for $8,900. The furniture fills high-priced housing. A no-frills single-family house in choice areas of Baden-Wurttemberg or Bavaria averages about $300,000, a one-bedroom apartment rarely less than $160,000. The most reasonably priced region is along the East-West border, but even there the market is tight...
...total of $8 billion last year, has lately begun to pick up again. Gorbachev was especially taken with demonstrations of the high-tech wizardry that abounds in West German industry. In one factory a robot poured glasses of a local wine for a toast with Baden-Wurttemberg Minister President Lother Spath. Gorbachev repeatedly encouraged West German industrialists to participate in joint ventures in the Soviet Union. Said he: "Those who look ahead and take calculated risks are doing the right thing...