Word: berlin
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...rows lay in a dead spot, and an unsettling echo off the back walls was noticeable in loud, brassy passages. Despite its reputation, Carnegie was not quite as good as Boston's jewel and the Grosser Musikvereinsaal in Vienna, or newer spaces such as the Philharmonie in Berlin and Symphony Hall in Salt Lake City...
...book, Kaku examines U.S. first-strike war plans almost implemented between 1945 and the mid. 60s. The three closest calls, Kaku says, occurred during the Berlin Crisis in 1948, when President Truman prepared to drop 50 atomic bombs on the Soviet Union; during the Korean Conflict in 1954 when Eisenhower almost launched 1000 atomic bombs on targets in the Soviet Union, Korea and Vietnam; and in 1961 after the construction of the Berlin Wall when Kennedy considered firing more than 4000 bombs on the Soviet Union...
...West Berlin verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...
Further links between Hindawi and Hasi emerged last week. Hasi's written confession described how Hindawi had helped arrange the Friendship Society bombing in West Berlin. Hasi said his brother had flown with Salameh to Damascus last January to discuss the attack with Syrian military intelligence officials. Hindawi made the trip, Hasi's statement said, after failing to receive Libyan support for his operations. In East Berlin, Fayssal Sammak, Syria's Ambassador to East Germany, labeled the confession "lies, pure lies...
...West Berlin tribunal is expected to reach a verdict in the trial next week. If convicted, Hasi and Salameh could face life prison sentences. The verdict may include a judgment by the court on whether Syrian authorities were involved in the bombing. At week's end Bonn had not decided what action it would take in the event of proof of Syrian complicity, though a source close to the government said a complete severing of ties with Syria would be unlikely. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet is divided over the question of what it might do, and Kohl...