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WORLD, Page 49World NotesWEST GERMANYMore Bad Chemistry
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."
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.