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Ford-Werke AG Joining The Foundation

28 March 2000

Ford-Werke AG Joining The Foundation

    COLOGNE, Germany, March 28 Ford-Werke AG has joined the
German "Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future Foundation."  The financial
contribution is intended to demonstrate Ford-Werke AG's support of this
humanitarian initiative to benefit former forced laborers during the NS
period.  While the precise amount of the contribution has not been finalized,
it is anticipated that it will be in the DM 26 million range, in accordance
with the Foundation's giving guidelines.  Ford-Werke AG wants to make a
humanitarian contribution to help former forced laborers who are still alive
and others who suffered particular hardship during the NS regime.