Word: bonne
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...Edward Jackson had the same responsibility for TIME'S News Service. Says he: "I tried to pick people who could work for us some day." In fact, 13 of the previous 89 interns are now staff members. They include TIME Staff Writer Kenneth W. Banta (1979) and Bonn Correspondent Gary Lee (1978), who did the major reporting for this week's cover story on David Bowie...
...tension and concern surrounding the pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II to his native Poland built before his arrival in Warsaw last week, TIME correspondents were reporting on the activities of both the visitor and the visited. In Rome, Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, who as a Rome correspondent covered John Paul's 1978 election, followed the Pontiff's preflight preparations, then accompanied him on the trip to Poland. Paris Correspondent Thomas A. Sancton, a former associate editor who wrote many of TIME's stories about Solidarity, including the 1981 Man of the Year cover on Lech...
Giersch sees slow growth through the 1980s as economies continue to suffer from high real interest rates. He expects Bonn to continue a cautious course aimed at reducing budget deficits, though he said that he "would be prepared to run a deficit to stimulate the economy...
Still, Stern's penalty, beyond its ruined reputation, was also financial: rumors in Bonn's press circles had the magazine paying $4 million for its "discovery." Other insiders considered that figure too low. The discrediting of the diaries enhanced the reputations of some historians and forgery experts who had quickly concluded that the diaries were fraudulent. New York Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton had taken one long look at photocopies of a few of the diary excerpts and pronounced them too consistent and too smooth to be credible. "Hitler's handwriting was full of power and force," he said...
...journalistic scoop of the century. But the diaries of Adolf Hitler "discovered" by the magazine turned out to be the hoax of the century--blatant forgeries. After Stern reluctantly handed over several of the 64 volumes to the West German government for study, it took specialists in Bonn only a few days to discover that materials contained in the paper and bindings hadn't even existed in 1945, the last year Hitler allegedly wrote in the diaries. Upon further analysis, it became clear that large segments of the journals had been copied verbatim from a book on Hitler published twenty...