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Across the Rhine in Germany, farmers were slaughtering prized cattle for lack of fodder; in the Hesse area alone, drought damage was estimated at more than $400 million. West German Autobahnen buckled in the fierce sun. In Frankfurt, citizens going wild in the heat piled into public swimming pools in such numbers that the facilities had to shut down shortly after opening each day. Breweries worked overtime to quench the increased demand for beer-and the resulting overconsumption led to more brawls than usual among overheated drinkers. In Italy, some seaside resorts started rationing water...
...word détente - a policy that is identified with Schmidt's Social Democrats and widely questioned by his Christian Democratic opposition. He must have winced last week as that longtime scourge of the Republican right wing, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, during a U.S. Bicentennial ceremony in Frankfurt, lashed out at the Soviet Union. "We find ourselves faced with a new and far more complex form of imperialism, a mixture of czarism and Marxism with colonial appendages," he said. He warned that "a continuing attempt is under way to organize the world into a new empire in which...
Special Precautions. Meinhof's death brought more violence. Police armed with water cannons fought a pitched battle with 600 rampaging demonstrators in Frankfurt and quelled more rumbles in West Berlin, Munich and other cities. A West German soldier whose sympathy, police suspect, belonged to the terrorists was critically injured when a bomb he was carrying exploded near the Munich studio of the American Forces Network. Other bombs went off in Paris and Rome. At week's end authorities were taking special precautions to ensure that the dwindling number of young Germans who still follow Meinhof's black...
...Mark's trembled and the lagoon waters suddenly roiled. In Pisa, the Leaning Tower vibrated-but held its precarious tilt. On the Venice-Vienna railroad line, a train suddenly derailed as the tracks weaved out from under it. Shakes and masonry cracks were reported as far away as Frankfurt, Munich and the French town of Nancy...
...name of "Carlos" (see box). Two others, according to Algerian authorities, were Palestinians, and one was Lebanese. Two were European, one an unidentified woman in her early 20s, possibly Irish or English, and the other Hans-Joachim Klein, 28, who worked in a lawyer's office in Frankfurt and associated with radicals...