Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play sly variations on the formulas. Left-wing Robyn, for example, decries Vic's factory as a hellish model of capitalism in extremis and dismisses his maneuvers against rival companies as "a lot of little dogs squabbling over bones." Yet while tagging along to a trade show in Frankfurt, she can't resist helping him bring off a negotiating coup for a piece of automatic machinery that will replace several workers. Vic charges that Robyn's scholarly concerns have no place on society's balance sheet and that the university's elitism violates her own populist ideals. Yet he soon...
...Mexico City will likely join four U.S. and four to six European cities in a twelve-game season leading to a summertime World Bowl. Towns tired of hoping for N.F.L. expansion franchises (Jacksonville, Memphis, Oakland and Baltimore) would seem the prime American candidates for the auxiliary league. London, Dublin, Frankfurt and Milan are among the European possibilities...
...runway in Beirut airport and 39 American passengers were held hostage for 17 days by gunslinging hijackers. Among the most horrifying images in the intense TV coverage: the body of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, being dumped onto the tarmac. Last week, after a ten-month trial, a Frankfurt court sentenced Lebanese-born Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 24, to life in prison for his role in the hijacking and Stethem's murder. Unable to determine whether Stethem was shot by Hammadi or a second hijacker, still at large, the court ruled that Hammadi was accountable as an accomplice...
Hammadi, who is linked to the radical pro-Iranian group Hizballah, was arrested in January 1987 while trying to smuggle explosives through Frankfurt airport. West Germany denied a U.S. extradition request after Hammadi backers kidnaped two German businessmen in Lebanon, prompting criticism that Bonn was knuckling under to blackmail. Hammadi could have faced the death penalty in the U.S., not an option in Germany. Said Stethem's father Richard: Hammadi "deserves punishment more severe than allowable under German...
...sources say the investigation has narrowed down to between five and ten passengers. One of these is Khalid Jaafar, a Lebanese-American student en route from Frankfurt to Detroit to visit his parents. They say he could not be the unwitting bomber, as a photograph taken before his departure shows him carrying only a soft-sided bag. Still, Jaafar could have been given another suitcase, one containing the bomb, before boarding the doomed flight at Frankfurt...