Word: bavaria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drafted into the army, and his repeated criticism of Hitler's war caused him no end of trouble. At war's end, having been cleared of any Nazi connections by the American occupation forces, he was made a civilian administrative official for a district in Bavaria. A year later he founded the Christian Social Union...
...residence in Guatemala City had been scribbled hastily by the ambassador himself. "Do not be afraid," wrote Count Karl von Spreti, 62, to his son Alessandro, 11. "My health is good, my heart is as stout as the Bühler Höhe [a well-known hill in Bavaria's Black Forest]. I am treated with respect and courtesy. I embrace you fondly. Papi." Last week, shortly after he wrote that note, the ambassador was murdered with a bullet behind the right...
...pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm will build a link extending an existing pipeline from the Czechoslovak border town of Cheb into Bavaria...
...deal has major business advantages for both sides. The Soviet gas will help meet the fuel needs of energy-poor southern Germany, and at a lower price than the Germans would have to pay for Dutch gas piped in from North Sea fields to Bavaria. The Germans also hope for other Soviet export outlets; they now speculate about selling trucks and cars to Russia. The Soviets will get a new Western bridgehead for their gas, which they contracted in December to sell also to Italy...