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 | | Two-thirds of East German GNP is in manufacturing, energy and mining, (West Germany, 35 per cent) and one-third is exported, mainly to Comecon countries whose unquestioning custom leaves the supplier with no idea whether his products are world class or not. |
 | | Mr Horst Sindermann, the late number three in the Politburo, conveyed the quagmire feel of East German input-output planning in an interview in Der Spiegel: "I found in Berlin a giant bureaucracy that I was, as government leader, quite helpless against. |
 | | The East German transport minister, Mr Horst Gibtner, sketches out up to DM200bn of investment needed to restore the roads and railways, link the canals to West Germany's, resurrect the Baltic seaports, modernise the urban roads and build a new international airport for Berlin. |
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