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That was certainly true for the West German government. In a move that left Bonn officials sputtering in helpless surprise, Morgan Guaranty Trust, the U.S.'s fifth largest bank and a leading creditor of the Iranian government, quietly went into an Essen court and attached Iran's 25% share of two of West Germany's best-known companies, Friedrich Krupp GmbH, a diversified steel and engineering combine (1978 sales: $5.9 billion), and Deutsche Babcock, a manufacturer of industrial equipment (1978 sales: $1.6 billion). Iranian stakes in the two companies were acquired under the Shah...
...caption with your picture of "the thriving, reconstructed Essen of today," belching smoke and blanketed by ugly smog should have said: "The Ruhr city of Essen in ruins...
...seven-city European tour, was so flabby that he wore a T shirt during his exhibition bouts. The champ, now 37, claimed to be "at the most" only 22 Ibs. over his fighting trim of 220 Ibs., but others reckoned him 50 Ibs. above par. In Essen, a crowd of 2,500, who had paid up to $131 a ticket, watched dumbfounded as West German Boxer George Butzbach put the puffing champ on the ropes with a series of sharp counterpunches. A winded Ali never did finish another match with former European Champion Karl Mildenberger. As they said after World...
...plus 3 million people in areas of East Germany tuned in last week for Holocaust, the American-made fictional account of Hitler's extermination of 6 million Jews. As nine regional television networks prepared to air the four-part docu-drama neo-Nazis torched an old synagogue in Essen and bombers demolished a television transmission tower near Koblenz and a telephone relay station near Münster. Newspapers carried debates on the accuracy of the series and whether a fictional version of Hitler's ultimate atrocity should be shown...
...Enquist's version the mistress be comes a beer-swigging lesbian, Marie Caroline David (Eileen Atkins), and the wife, Siri von Essen-Strindberg (Bibi Andersson), proclaims her love for her to Strindberg's horror, anger, jealousy and despair. The lines, mean and many, are sulfurous fumes straight from the marriage pit. In much of Enquist's play, Strindberg spews vitriolic putdowns at both women. These speeches are used to indicate the large feminine component in Strindberg's nature of which he was fully aware and which he wished to exorcise through a bludgeoning masculinity...