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East Germany has also tried to block Bonn's overtures to Eastern European countries, has continued to attack the Federal Republic publicly and has generally acted the way Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht looks: tough and unbending. It is even using Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East...
...backlog can only be blamed on success-not Communist inefficiency. Aside from putting Red bosses in charge of the operation, Walter Ulbricht's government has refrained from tampering with Meissen's time-honored techniques. As a result, Meissen continues to demonstrate its 257-year-old knack for producing exquisite china. The translucent, ornately decorated product commands capitalist prices: a twelve-place dinner service in the famed blue and white "onion" pattern sells for around $900, and more elaborate patterns can run $4,500 and up. And even though few, if any, East Germans can afford to spend that...
...experiments with profits, market pricing, bonuses and other incentives. Marx has, if anything, become something of an embarrassment. Last week the only Marxists who took much public note of Das Kapital's anniversary were the East Germans-perhaps because Marx was a German. East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht spoke at a symposium on Marx to explain why his regime has adopted the use of profits. He argued that profits are something different when they "increase social wealth" and go to a government that owns the means of production rather than to a few capitalists. But no matter...
...also vented their spleen on their Kremlin friends. "The balance of terror," complained the Algiers daily El Moudjahid, has prompted the Russians to "put the preservation of peace before every other consideration" and to relegate their "support for the liberation movements to second place." Even East Germany's Walter Ulbricht was alarmed over Moscow's refusal to risk war. "The nuclear balance between the Soviet Union and the United States," he said, "is to be used as an excuse to start wars of aggression just below the nuclear threshold to eliminate progressive governments...
...misdirected. Until the wall, was erected millions of people, carrying with them money, and technical know-how, deserted their country. And many of these people were consciously lured away by the West Germans. In an open letter to the Social Democratic Party of West Germany in February 1966, Walter Ulbricht wrote: "We have not forgotten, and shall not forget, how, supported and guided by the government of the West German Federal Republic, systematic attempts were made to disorganize the health system of the [GDR German Democratic Republic] by enticing medical specialists. This disruptive activity was systematically concentrated on individual towns...