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- <text id=89TT0620>
- <title>
- Mar. 06, 1989: World Notes:West Germany
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 06, 1989 The Tower Fiasco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 49
- World Notes
- West Germany
- More Bad Chemistry
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The noxious cloud hanging over Imhausen-Chemie keeps growing
- thicker. Under fire for its alleged complicity in the building
- of a poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical
- company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who
- fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen
- Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's
- second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide
- attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the
- illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly
- known as "ecstasy."
- </p>
- <p> German prosecutors say Imhausen has supplied U.S. drug
- traffickers with 374 lbs. of MDMA, worth up to $27 million on
- the street. Two Americans and one Imhausen employee have been
- arrested. While Imhausen has admitted manufacturing the drug,
- company officials claim they were unaware the substance was
- illegal. Ironically, Imhausen could face stiffer penalties if
- convicted of breaking local narcotics laws than for helping a
- foreign country make deadly chemical weapons.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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