Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets today are still sealed behind a high fence of yellow plastic panels, like a Berlin Wall of environmental quarantine. Every 20 feet a posted sign warns: CONTAMINATED AREA. NO ADMITTANCE. Some of the telephone lines leading to the shuttered houses lie slack in lush summer growths of hydrangea that bloom unattended. But no matter, because the phones never ring any more. Two years after the disaster known as "Italy's Hiroshima," the core of Seveso is a dead community, and no one knows when-if ever-it will become habitable again...
Currently stationed in West Berlin as TIME'S Eastern European bureau chief, Aikman was the magazine's last staff correspondent to leave Cambodia, a few days before Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld -Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad First Person Rural, Noel Perrin Reflections, Waller Benjamin Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
...make democracy work." Repeatedly, Carter urged his listeners to speak up for human rights, including the right of citizens to disagree with actions of their governments. And again, he vowed: "We consider an attack on Western Europe to be the same as an attack on the U.S. Whatever happens, Berlin will remain free...
Despite fears of some West German officials that Carter might make a gaffe in such an open forum, the town meeting showed that the President is more lucid and at ease in a conversational setting than when delivering formal speeches. From Berlin, Carter returned to Bonn, where his ability to argue persuasively across a table was to be tested in a tough forum: the two-day meeting of seven Western leaders seeking ways to stabilize the world economy. And if, after the Berlin visit, Helmut Schmidt was not yet Carter's warmest friend, he could hardly help having been...