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Wrong Turn. Nonetheless, two Singen officers ambled down to the Café Hanser for a routine check of the report. There, composedly eating breakfast at a table, were a young man with a huge drooping moustache and a thin-lipped blonde. Asked for his identity papers, the man led the policemen into a nearby parking area. Reaching into his rucksack, he pulled out a sawed-off submachine gun, shot one of the officers in the chest and wounded the other in the arm. Commandeering an Opel at gunpoint from a passing motorist, he and his companion sped...
...Minh City, but it still looks much like the old Saigon-at least at first glance. A stroll along busy Tu Do Street-renamed Dong Khoi, the Street of the Simultaneous Uprising-remains one of the most fascinating city walks in the world, a gauntlet of boutiques, cafés and attractive women in the traditional ao dai-a long, slit-skirted dress. In sharp contrast with Hanoi, where I found nearly everything in short supply, Saigon's peddlers hawk an abundance of goods, from government-sponsored lottery tickets to ceramic elephants and noodle soup. The 250-seat...
Policemen in the German-Swiss border town of Singen were not particularly alarmed last week when an excited old lady marched in to say that she had sighted a pair of terrorists in a local café. Since a massive man hunt was launched last month for the assassins of Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, West German police stations have been swamped with mistaken reports of sightings of three revolutionaries who are wanted for shooting Buback, his chauffeur and a bodyguard in a deadly spray of machine-gun fire...
Much of the profit is going to Latin America's already café-riche class of exporters, brokers and large plantation owners. But in some countries, coffee is also grown by peasants who farm minuscule plots. Since a frost in 1975 shriveled more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, buyers have been bidding for extra beans at prices that have raised some farmers above the subsistence level for the first time in their lives. In Haiti, where malnutrition is as common as sunshine, the peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying...
...foreigners. In the International Settlement and the neighboring French Concession, Europeans and Americans watched jai alai on the Avenue du Roi Albert, gambled on greyhounds at the Canidrome, and enjoyed the most glittering night life in the world at such places as the Ambassador, the Casanova and the Venus Café. Shanghai was a city for sale. Almost anything-and almost anyone-could be bought for the right price...