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...Strauss's attack was triggered by VW's request that the government relax tax measures that were instituted to ward off a potential deficit in the national budget. Turning the company's complaint around, Strauss charged that the carmaker has come up with little in the way of innovations that might spur the German economy out of its deflated state...
...time to exterminate the Volkswagen beetle, which has not changed much since it first began bugging the roads after World War II? West German Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss thinks so - and in a recent speech he warned that VW had better begin to produce a car more attuned to contemporary demands for "performance, comfort and safety...
...Volkswagen sees it, the key to its resurgence is decreased taxes on gasoline and new cars, higher tax deductions for commuting by car, and government authorization of reduced auto-insurance premiums. Strauss has other ideas: "It had better consider which market is still particularly receptive to its product in the light of the increased demands of Western Europeans for comfort...
...Adams House and Swampscott, Mass -- Director; Ellis Tinios '69 of Eliot House and Deal, N.J. -- Co-director; Pat Gerarde '69 of Moors Hall and Westfield, N.J. -- Secretary. The advisory committee will consist of Paul T. Gibson '68 of Adams House and Cambridge, Mass.; Kent M. Keith '70 of Strauss and Honolulu; and Leo V. Boyle '68 of 38 Linnean St., and Wellesley Hills, Mass...
...Other coastal targets-roads, trucks, trains, SAM missile sites-have been taken care of by the fleet's fighter-bombers, whose activity is drastically curtailed during the monsoon month of March. Last week Navy guns attacked those North Vietnamese targets as well. The guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Joseph Strauss opened up with 5-in. guns that lob 54-lb. shells from ten to 14 miles. Two minutes later, the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Canberra began firing its eight-inchers, whose 260-lb. shells carry 17 miles...