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Unlike most other countries with modern, high-speed motorways, West Germany allows drivers to zip along as fast as they choose on more than 5,000 miles of autobahn. So when the Bonn government earlier this year suggested that a nationwide limit of 62 m.p.h. (100 k.p.h.) was a possibility, the outcry was long and loud. Now the danger appears to have passed. In the face of noisy protests, the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week voted to keep the autobahn free and fast...
Described by a high Bonn official as "a thug and an international gangster and pirate," Abu Nidal reportedly operates less for ideology than to gain notoriety and money from others who hire his services. After leaving Arafat, he led his council on numerous terrorist attacks. He is believed to have organized assaults on synagogues in Rome, Paris and Vienna. His council has also been linked to the 1982 shooting in London of Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Argov, an incident that touched off Israel's invasion of Lebanon that year; the 1983 murder in Lisbon of Issam Sartawi, a top Arafat aide...
...past 40 years, TIME has become a magazine of global reach and impact. By latest reckoning, some 32 million people read it each week, more than 23 million in the U.S. and the rest abroad. TIME now connects a dentist in Kyoto, a stockbroker in Bonn, an interior decorator in Boston--and five subscribers on tiny Tuvalu Island in the South Pacific (occupations unknown...
DIED. Eugen Gerstenmaier, 79, West German political leader who helped establish democratic reforms after World War II and served as President of the Bundestag from 1954 to 1969; of a stroke; in Bonn. Imprisoned by the Nazis for his involvement in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Gerstenmaier in the 1950s vigorously supported reconciliation with Israel and negotiated reparation payments to help ease bitter feelings...
...across Europe, Libyans suddenly found themselves under diplomatic fire last week. West Germany told more than half the 41 representatives stationed at Libya's People's Bureau in Bonn that they had seven days to leave the country. Britain deported 22 Libyan students suspected of activism and informed more than 300 others that they would have to leave shortly. Spain demanded that eleven Libyans quit the country. The Italians arrested a former Libyan diplomat for plotting to kill U.S. Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb and announced a 20% cut in Libya's diplomatic corps. And the French expelled four Libyans...