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...Paul, Kansas City, Miami and Dulles International outside Washington, D.C., because they are uncongested and have wide spaces between runways and taxiways. They also have excellent air traffic control and emergency equipment. Abroad, pilots like London's Heathrow, Amsterdam's Schipol, Paris' De Gaulle and the Frankfurt airport. These fields, like their American counterparts, have the best lighting, communications and radar equipment available...
...Democratic Party of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-long a robust symbol of stability-was trounced in one of its traditional strongholds: voters in Hesse, angered in part by Bonn's hedging its promise to raise pensions, swept Christian Democratic candidates into office in every major city, including Frankfurt. In The Netherlands, Premier Joop den Uyl's Cabinet collapsed last week after the moderate Christian Democratic members of his coalition refused to endorse sweeping land expropriation measures proposed by Den Uyl and his Socialist Party. In Belgium, Christian Social Premier Leo Tindemans is similarly in trouble with...
Traube admits having joined the Communist youth movement after the war. Now 49, he made contact with younger radicals through Inge Hornischer, a Frankfurt attorney who handled his divorce in 1975. Verfassungsschutz agents, it seemed, regularly tuned in to the telephone of Frau Hornischer, whose radical clientele included Wilfried Böse, a left-wing terrorist killed in the Israeli raid at Entebbe last July...
...always there have been the multitudes ready for the opening kickoff. They include Americans in Europe who jet into Frankfurt to watch the game in German hotels that pirate the American Forces Network's signal. In Korea, 40,000 troops worry less about Panmunjom Truce Session CCCLXXXIII than the 5:30 a.m. live color broadcast of the Super Bowl...
Dodging Amsterdam's closely watched Schiphol Airport, couriers detour to Zurich, Frankfurt, Rome and other cities and then carry the dope to Holland overland. Penny-wise smugglers have even used Aeroflot's discount flights across Asia, though Soviet police crackdowns in Moscow are making that route more dangerous. Tactics change daily. "You know if we see a Chinese get off a flight from Bangkok, we're going to nail him," says one Paris-based U.S. narc. To avoid that, the triads are recruiting middle-class Caucasians as "mules" for $1,000 a trip plus plane fare...