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14 the examiner Tuooday Nov 22 1977 BERLIN AP wave of consumer consciousness has hit East Germanys Communist government forcing party leader Erich Honecker to defend the operation of stores that sell capitalist goods for capitalist cash These shops obviously arent permanent companions of socialism Honecker explained But we cant ignore the fact that the rising number of visitors is bringing more such currency among us than before At issue are East Germanys Intershops where citizens who can get hold of Western currency use it to buy such im ported goods as Japanese televisions West German blue Jeans or good bottle of Scotch Prices generally match Western levels making most of the goods stiff proposition in East German Honecker who himself uses Swedish Vo vo limousine in stead of some of the bulkier Sovietbloc products on the mar ket took problems of the system in recent ch in which he so defended growing trade with capitalist coun triesGRIEVANCE RECOGNIZED Naturally we havent overlooked the fact that the citizens of the German Democratic Republic who have no such funds are at disadvantage in certain sense com ed with those who have such currency at their disposal Blacker told Dresden party gathering The biggest sense in which such East Germans are dis advantaged iS that the cant use Intersho facilities Such operations are report to growmg and ately have come to include some of the fanciest new restaurants in restau rantshort country There have been unconfirmed reports in the West Berlin press of uproars in East Berlins new Hotel Metropol by angry residents turned away from its hardcurrency restaurant The restaurant and its impeccably uniformed waiters are across the lobby from hardcurrency souvenir shop and few yards from the hardcurrenc Intershop separating the hotel from the new American Em assy Hardcurrency operations arent unique to East Germany They are widely used in Soviet bloc countries as way of col lecting me hard cash needed to deal With the West OTHER METHODS USED East Germany also raises such cash through visa and road use fees levied against Western visitors as well as requiring visiting Westerners to convert some currency into East Ger Capitalist enterprise sweeps East Germany man marks Some travellers report being ordered to pay trifific fines in either West German marks or American do ars Honecker noted the yearly visit of 95 million visitors from capitalist countries who eat with us usually spend the night and obviously have money in their pockets Through the lntershops we have created the pOSSlblIlLy that these funds stay in the country He promised the government would boost the offerings of luxury and delicacy shops that sell Western goods for East gerilnan cash though frequently at higher prices than In rs ops The lntersho issue is the second in recent weeks on which the top level East German government has responded to consumer complaints Late in September officials romised improvements in the quality of the coffeema up only in part of cof feepushed on the market this year Just want to point out one more time that the import of raw coffee alone cost us $300 million Honecker said Growing trade with the West he said is normal thing made possible by close cooperation with socialist countries ERlCll HONECKER cant ignore NOW SAVE MORE AT AM PLEASE NOTE AAM An all to cloud Sundays nil Holdya effective Sunday Nov Mb VIII notice COMPARE OUR PRICES ANYWHERE YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID Thank You CANADA HIGHEST QUALITY BEEF TV special on Queens visit Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are shown walking with GovernorGeneral Jules Leger and Mme Leger in Ottawa last month Royal thoughts were captured on film by CBCTV crew during the visit which marked the 25th year of her reign They are included in special onehour show on the monar chy in Canada to be shown on the CBCTV English network =¢Fzrrtr lt Wednesday night CP Photo Stimulate agriculture to create more iobs By stimulating our healthy industries such as 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