WEST GERMANY

West Germans spend more on international travel than people from any other country, including the U.S. Income from foreign visitors for 1981 was $6.3 billion; outgo was $17.8 billion, leaving a travel deficit of $11.6 billion, by all odds the largest in the world. Germans average more than twenty-seven days a year vacation time and they work only 31.6 hours a week compared to thirty-five for Americans and thirty-nine for the average Japanese. Where do the Germans travel? Everywhere. Look out from a cliff on the island of Madeira. A solitary swimmer is out 500 yards, pumping away as if