This booklet is aimed at all English-speaking visitors, but especially at the soldiers of the American Armed Forces, who will stay for a longer period in our state. The idea for such a booklet came from the Baye- rische Landtag (Bavarian Parlia- ment), which on June 22, 1989, decided "to publish an easily- understood guide on the inter- esting political, economic and social aspects of the Ameriā¦