Word: aachen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center of this great dig out, which has attracted the interest of both industrialists and environmentalists around the world, is a 1,000-sq.-mi. area bounded by the industrial cities of Düsseldorf, Aachen and Cologne. Known as the Brown Coal Triangle, it contains an estimated 50 billion tons of lignite, enough to meet West Germany's energy needs for 350 years. Unfortunately for the villagers who sit atop this fossil fuel bonanza, much of it lies just below the surface; it can only be recovered by open-pit or strip mining, which requires relocating the people...
While a United Nations committee considered a resolution that would condemn skyjacking and require stricter airport security measures, West Germans were steeling themselves for still more attacks by the Red Army Faction or its allies in the international network of terror. Somewhere near Aachen, an illegal radio transmitter sputtered for a few minutes last week on the frequency used by the U.S. armed forces network. "Schleyer will not be the last," it promised. Calling for the "destruction of the imperialist, corrupt, rotten place that calls itself the Federal Republic of Germany," it continued: "Destroy all police stations, banks, city halls...
WILLIAM YOUNG Aachen, West Germany...
...million tons. Result: about 100,000 cars bought by Americans this year will be assembled by workers in Los Angeles or Flint, Mich., rather than in Wolfsburg or Yokohama, and the steel going into those cars will be rolled at mills in Gary, Ind., or Braddock, Pa., instead of Aachen or Kitakyushu...
Executives of Chemie Grünenthal GMBH had been on trial for 20 months in a suit brought by the West German government in behalf of the parents and children. In a courtroom improvised from a miners' hall in Alsdorf, near Aachen, company lawyers had been skillfully using delaying moves in an apparent effort to wear down the plaintiffs. Their efforts seemed to be paying off; by last week, few of the aggrieved parents were bothering to attend the monotonous hearings. But time was also working against Grünenthal. Its key executives had been confined to the courtroom...