European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse All is Calm in g the country and its capital share the tame name. By Robert j. Willaard associated press Here were Low people Andre Claude did nol Groom As he wound his Way through the streets of Luxembourg inc other Day 1o see the foreign minister in Luxembourg everyone knows just about everyone said the Man who has been inc government spokesman for the last 36 years and adding a Well worn joke to said you know Why Luxom burgers never honk their horns they Are bound to upset a Friend or relative " Lile is like Hal in the picture postcard Nalion of 999 Square Miles of dense forests sleep Hills and serpentine Rivers wedged Between Belgium Franco and wast Germany. The country. Bearing Iho same name As its capital has a population of 365,000 and measures roughly 50 by 34 Miles. Its armed farces local 450, ils police Force 550. To has four newspapers and no universities. There is one National phone Book listing Bolh Tho Ollice and Home numbers of government ministers Luxembourg s jobless rate is 1 5 percent and you can count tha number of strikes in recent decades on one Finger the City of Luxembourg straddles a picturesque Ravine Wilh a population of 76,000, it feels More like a provincial town. In the Center the Gingerbread Stylo grand Ducal Palace fronts a narrow Street where grand Duke Jean and grand Duchess Josephine Charlotte s neighbors include a hardware shop and a Hospital Supply store Luxembourg is everything the tourist brochure promises. Tha City indeed the nation As a whole has Lush scenery dolled Wilh castles Luxembourg breathes a Ruri Tanian atmosphere Hal can clash oddly with modern times in 1986, visiting King Hussein of Jordan went by car from the Palace to Iho parliament through the Maze of narrow downtown slice is. The motorcycles escorting him caused massive gridlock by themselves bringing the motorcade 10 a halt 35 a few passers by watched. And when English soccer fans raised Cam there in 1981, West German Border police had Lobo called in to restore order. Luxembourger arc in no Huny to alter Luxembourg s sedate Pace. Though very pro european and pro Western american in politics today Luxembourg has Long been wary of most things foreign the country s slogan Mil Woluc 0/ciwen wat Mir sin. Which Means we wont to slay what we is slated in luxe Bourgeois the Frankish Tongue that became Tho National language in 19b4. It was chosen Rumary 27,1987 Over German and French also spoken in Luxembourg the slogan comes from a 19ltvcenlury song questioning the need or rail links Wilh Belgium and Franco Many foreigners have Hoard of Luxembourg bul Low can place it says Claude. I once asked a hotel operator in new York to put a Call through to Luxembourg Lor me she kept insisting it was in Germany finally i told her look Madam. I m the spokesman for the government of Luxembourg i Tell you it s a country despite its Rural Quality Luxembourg is the richest of Iho 12 european common Ray nations ii shows Nono of Tho economic hardships that Mark neighbouring areas Luxembourg Tofu it o vineyards at re Merschen near the Masel River. In Belgium France or Wesl Germany the parliament puts Luxembourg s Small near to Good use. Each household regularly gels 0 Iree verbatim report of legislative Dobales in Tho mail i known As Mailbox Luxembourg is also proud of the Luxembourg a govern Mon by consensus involving unions the Parramon and employees it has so Vii jobs and made Lor a Namony Roe labor relations Slih speak of tha Day. A few Iri ago when civil servants struck. Asho Addre t Ilin sinkers a Union Leader found his megaphone m longer worked and borrowed one from a helpful police officer watching Tho illegal gathering this is unthinkable elsewhere a cop helping a organizer of an illegal strike said Claude in recent years the Sloe sector Long Luxembourg s economic Backbone halved its work Force to 14,000 with no layoffs bul through a1riiun and retraining. Today. In instance Crews Clearing forests in the North once ran blast furnaces in so Tel plants in the South As steel diminished a importance Luxembourg has become a major banking Center employing 11,000 people or 7 percent of the nation s work Force. More than 200 credit institutions including 122 Banks Are based Thore they contain Assels totalling $210 billion. Usually Bank assets in a country Are 12 Lime the Gross National product of Hal said Pierre jeans head of the Luxembourg monetary Institute. Here re s 40 times the growth in Banting began 20 years ago. Thanks to a Lack of monetary cons rails. A Bank secrecy saw and Law taxes today Banks fill buildings on the Joul Vaid Roy it and Boule a Dgrande Duchesse Charlolle Banks have nol greatly changed the City shopping has said jeans As have he added which serve game and Trout iwo Luxembourg delicacies. Being Small has posed some problems or Luxembourg France has built a nuclear Power plan near the Luxembourg to Der clasp Ito protests from Luxembourg when you Are As san til As we you re not Alwa a stoned to said Luxembourg Toru Ign of a scr Jacques Poos Luxembourg has done a hit Butler in mail airing its position As a european Community Admir 5trativ. Center outside this City a Cluster of modernistic buildings houses several institutions including its Couil of just co statistics Mollico court of auditors and inc european parliament s Sec Elri it the stars and stripes Page 15
