The 163-year-old Pfaelzische Volkszeitung, published in the West German city of Kaiserslautern (pop. 62,000), last week inserted in its regular German edition a special English-language, eight-page section for the 6,000 airmen, soldiers and their families stationed in the area. The paper will be put out once a week. Explained an editorial in the first issue: “[This newspaper] is being published by Germans, for Americans. It is not only for soldiers but also for the housewives, the children and the families . . . It should help to transform coexisting people into neighbors and to have the Americans walking among us instead of merely walking beside us . . . Our advertising section is another way of showing you that you can live very comfortably without the corner drugstore.”
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