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...been under machine-gun and mortar fire in Lebanon and Morocco. He had never been shot, however, until last week when he was mugged on Capitol Hill in Washington. He is now recovering from a stomach wound and pondering the ironies of chance. Barrett Seaman, moving from Chicago to Bonn, is aghast at the German bureaucracy. "The number of official forms to be filled out -in order to move in, get a phone, or do anything beyond buying a beer-is staggering." In London the directory of civil servants is classified information under the Official Secrets Act, so Lawrence Malkin...
Reporters are often caught up at first in the language or locutions of their new country. German-born Gisela Bolte, assigned to the New York bureau after working in Bonn, has discovered that "a word like hokey, which wasn't in use when I was here from 1968 to 1970, is popular now and others, such as dropout, are no longer common usage." Senior Correspondent James Bell, who joined TIME in 1942 and has served in 14 different bureaus, is also busy getting used to a linguistic shift although he has only moved from Atlanta to Boston. "Retuning...
Carter's performance was being watched with increasing anxiety by most European capitals (but not Bonn; said one West German official, "It is high time that America hit back"). The French were conspicuously cool. Last week President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made a point of not meeting with Andrei Amalrik, an exiled dissident who came to Paris with the express hope of seeing him. When Amalrik pulled up in a cab at the gates of the presidential mansion with a letter for Giscard, police hustled the visitor away...
...avoid provocation. It was also decided that the National Security Council need not be called into session, and the President spent his scheduled weekend at Camp David. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance conferred with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. The U.S. Embassy in Bonn remained in touch with the West German Foreign Ministry, which has handled American interests in Uganda since the U.S. Embassy in Kampala was shut down...
...Bonn, Mondale gave Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-who had been plugging for Gerald Ford in the election and had been suspicious of Carter's economics-an autographed, ornately bound copy of Carter's Inaugural speech. "Of course," cracked Mondale, "Schmidt said what he really wanted was a bound collection of my speeches...