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...soon as the planes landed in Frankfurt, their passengers were hustled into Black Hawk helicopters and dispatched to Wiesbaden and two other U.S. military hospitals. Of the 61 injured who were eventually flown to West Germany, about a dozen required major surgery, while others needed broken bones set or dirt and shards of glass cleaned out of hastily bandaged wounds. By Friday, most were in fair condition, and eight felt well enough to fly home to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington...
...serious confrontations, but the fear lingers that at some point emotions could boil over. Two years ago, Red Army Faction terrorists fired an antitank grenade at a car carrying General Frederick Kroesen, then Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. "Some of these people will do anything," says a Frankfurt-based soldier. "It takes only one bomb attack for you and your wife to be afraid for months...
...Reagan Administration to be unnecessarily aggressive in the realm of East-West relations. In the eyes of some resident U.S. citizens, that criticism has undertones of a more generalized anti-Americanism. On the whole, protest has so far been peaceful: demonstrations in front of the American consulate in Frankfurt, or the display in a Lübeck storefront of quotes designed to portray the U.S. as a warmonger. (Example: "We don't want war, but. . ." attributed to former NATO Commander and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.) Occasionally the mood has turned ugly. When U.S. Vice President George Bush visited...
BARON JAMES: THE RISE OF THE FRENCH ROTHSCHILDS by Anka Muhlstein Vendome; 223 pages; $17.95 When James Rothschild arrived in Paris in 1811, he headed straight for the most fashionable part of town to rent rooms. At 19 he was leaving behind the suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style...
English-language financial coverage is booming in Europe. The Financial Times (circ. 213,000 worldwide) started printing part of its run in Frankfurt in 1979 and now has 33,000 readers on the Continent. The Paris-based International Herald Tribune (European circ. 112,000), a general-interest daily, has increased its business coverage by 25% within the past two years. Moreover, the London-based weekly Economist (European circ. 35,000) has been joined by international editions of two American magazines, Business Week (European circ. 38,000) and FORTUNE (European circ. 45,000). Journal officials insist that the territory is large...