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| | TIME.com: Under a Cloud -- Jul 9, 1984 -- Page 1 |
 | | The clocks in Bonn stood at 15 minutes to midnight when Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff appeared at the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week to tender his resignation. |
 | | The outspoken Lambsdorff, 57, who had spent nearly seven years in the key Cabinet post, is expected soon to be formally charged by the Bonn public prosecutor's office with accepting $50,000 on behalf of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) from the Flick Holding Co. in exchange for allowing the firm generous tax writeoffs. |
 | | Lambsdorff, who will retain his seat in the Bundestag, insisted on his innocence. |
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