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...would have never gone back to East Germany,this was it," said Heinz Schmidt, a railway workerfrom Magdeburg who spent eight days in a tent withhis wife and teen...
...such short supply that even favored state-owned operations must routinely shut down for two or three days a week. Lun Feng beat the power problem with money. For about $3 million, the factory installed five auxiliary diesel generators. With eleven workers maintaining the equipment 24 hours a day, eight seconds is the longest Lun Feng has been without electric power...
...country, reflecting America's experiences in his music. When the Baline family fled the Russian pogroms in 1892 for the tenements of New York, young Israel was four. The Statue of Liberty was only a couple of years older. His father Moses, a cantor, died when the boy was eight, so he hit the streets in search of work. Izzy sang for pennies anywhere he could find listeners, finally landing a job as a singing waiter in a raffish Chinatown bistro; it was there that he wrote his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy, in partnership with the cafe...
...less if protecting the island's image had not been deemed more important than protecting the island itself. Tourism is St. Croix's largest industry, and officials evidently feared that a revival of racial tensions could cause almost as much harm as Hugo. Memories still linger of 1972, when eight people (seven of them white) were murdered on a golf course by gun-toting black leftists. Virgin Islands Governor Alexander Farrelly, who stayed on St. Thomas, 37 miles away, insisted that reports of lawlessness were distorted and exaggerated. Witnesses, he said, may have mistaken looters for police and guardsmen because...
During his eight-year tenure as Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop campaigned passionately against cigarette smoking among Americans. Last week Koop took on the tobacco industry once again, but this time he was fighting the sale of U.S. cigarettes in Asia. Testifying before a committee of the U.S. Trade Representative's office, Koop blasted the industry's contention that the U.S. Government should pressure Thailand, which bans all cigarette imports, to open its market to American manufacturers. Said Koop, who retires Oct. 1: "At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine...