Unemployment up, output down in West Germany
| Bonn
West Germany announced a sharp increase in unemployment and a fall in industrial production as government talks continued on whether to levy a special income surtax to finance the creation of more jobs.
Federal Labor Office statistics showed the number out of work rose 120,500 last month to 1.25 million, or 5.3 percent of the work force, the highest July total in 29 years.