| GERMAN INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT SEEN STAGNATING | |
| The number of workers employed in | |
| the West German industrial sector stagnated in the last quarter | |
| of 1986 as a 50,000 increase in overall employment benefited | |
| only the services branch, the DIW economic institute said. | |
| A DIW report added the general downturn in the economy | |
| since last Autumn had had a negative effect on the willingness | |
| of firms to take on workers. It referred to a marked downturn | |
| in the number of workers taken on in the capital goods sector. | |
| New orders for manufacturing industry goods have mostly | |
| fallen or stagnated in recent months, but data for February | |
| finally showed a reversal of the trend, with a 1.9 pct rise. | |