exports 23 percent of its GNP (versus 8 percent for the Ameri- cans). Its generous foreign-aid program, designed in part to keep its Third World customers happy, is the West's third biggest.
As suppliers (and consumers) of goods and services, the West Germans are ubiquitous. They build Volkswagens in Penn- sylvania, airports in the Soviet Union, nuclear power complexes in Brazil, solar installations in Kuwait, medical research labo- ratories in Egypt, desalinization facilities in Libya, Iran,...