Word: bavaria
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...Ludwigshafen, an industrial city on the Rhine River. In the closing months of World War II, when the Third Reich was drafting teen-agers to fill depleted ranks of the depleted ranks of the Wehrmacht, the 15-year-old Kohl went through a basic training course in Bavaria. Advancing American troops brought his military career to an abrupt end. With only his tattered, ill-fitting uniform and not a pfennig to his name, Kohl made the 560-mile walk home to finish his schooling. Working part time as a stone polisher, he went on to earn a doctorate in political...
Franz Josef Strauss, 66, Minister-President,of the West German state of Bavaria, Finance Minister of West Germany from 1966 to 1969 and conservative candidate who lost to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...much momentum that if a vote were held today, it would win a clear majority of 50.3%. That is a remarkable comeback for a party that suffered the worst defeat in its history only a year ago, when Schmidt's coalition trounced the conservative Minister-President of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauss, 53.5% to 44.5%, in the national elections, winning 271 seats in the Bundestag, against a total of 226 for the C.D.U. and its companion Christian Social Union...
...headquarters of the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment. The Second is at the very forward edge of the U.S. commitment to nato, some 3,800 men assigned to the surveillance of 400 miles of the Iron Curtain. They are screening, among other places, the "Hof Corridor" into upper Bavaria, a less likely battlefield than the north German plain or the Fulda Gap in central Germany but perhaps a tributary invasion route. A feisty Lieut. Colonel from Florence, Ala., Tony Brinkley, 39, thinks the Second could give "the Pact" (the Soviets plus Eastern Europe, as in Warsaw Pact) a lot of trouble...
...years, all that was known of the work was the first 15 measures of the first-violin part, which Leopold had jotted down on the cover of another youthful Mozart symphony. Last year a complete set of parts in Leopold's handwriting was discovered among private papers in Bavaria and sold anonymously for an undisclosed sum to the Bavarian State Library, where the work was authenticated by Robert Minister, chief of the music collection. Says Minister: "When I recognized the handwriting of Leopold Mozart, I couldn't believe my eyes...