Word: frankfurt
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When these talks were pursued, Shultz insisted on written negotiating instructions that ruled out any arms sales. Yet the State Department's representative at the talks in Frankfurt learned that the Iranians were working from a nine-point plan given to them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...
Ever since Mohammed Ali Hamadei was arrested at Frankfurt airport last January after bottles of liquid explosive were found in his luggage, the West German government had been in a quandary. At first there was hope that the Lebanese terrorist suspect would be extradited to the U.S., where he and three others are wanted for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner from Athens to Beirut and the murder of a passenger, U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem. But when two West Germans were kidnaped in Beirut a few days after Hamadei's arrest, the government began temporizing. Last week, despite...
...slump of the once robust dollar has been offset in part by bargain air fares across the Atlantic. Roundtrip tickets to such destinations as Paris, London, Vienna and Frankfurt can be found in some U.S. cities for as little as half the normal roundtrip coach fares. The cheapest tickets, though, are often restricted to certain dates and advance purchase...
...known she had tried to transfer to a Swiss convent. After her arrest she asked the convent to send her two suitcases of clothes; that indicated ignorance of her fate, according to Sister Marie Louise, a former prioress at Echt. Agrees Pinchas Lapide, a Frankfurt Jewish scholar: "Her death was totally involuntary." Although "in her own mind Edith Stein most probably died for her faith," says Renee Grignon, an official of the French Jewish-Christian Friendship Association, "in reality, she died because of her origins." She acknowledged her Jewishness when she wrote after Hitler's pogroms began, "This...