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...just enough time to catch his breath before leaving for Germany as one of nine educators invited by the German government to conduct a seminar on educational and admission problems. And while he was there, he adds almost gleefully, he found time to take a trip to Frankfurt to visit a friend, a soccer player he'd met while covering a game. Such travel and unexpected variety, he maintains, are his favorite aspects variety, he maintains, are his favorite aspects of both worlds...
...offered no details as to how he might accomplish this. Still, the C.D.U. should enjoy widespread public support, at least initially, from West Germans who feel that the time has come for a change of government in Bonn. Schmidt's announcement that the coalition had collapsed sent the Frankfurt stock exchange soaring to record highs...
...Khomeini's fanatical army breaks through the Iraqi lines and captures Basra, the reverberations will shake all of Western Europe and Japan. According to one highly placed Western diplomatic source, "The fall of Basra would bring the crash of the Frankfurt stock market. Every blue-chip company in West Germany has a big stake here. They have close to $5 billion invested in development projects in Iraq." The Japanese also have $5 billion staked on Saddam's survival. France is not far behind. The U.S. is in for just under $ 1 billion...
...dread. Something dreadful does actually happen to him, and the question-and-answer core of the late British playwright C.P. Taylor's play is how and why. How does a seemingly decent, liberal-minded man like Haider, who lectures on the German classics at the University of Frankfurt, and whose best friend Maurice (Joe Melia) is a Jewish psychoanalyst, wage a retreat from conscience that finds him at Auschwitz as the right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann (Nicholas Woodeson...
...bomb blasts came in calculated sequence, each explosion hitting at symbols of the American presence in West Germany. The first four exploded at U.S. Army bases near Frankfurt. Two others damaged the Düsseldorf offices of U.S. computer firms, IBM and Control Data Corp. Then came a blast at the German-American Institute in Tübingen. In a letter to the West German press, the Revolutionary Cells, a leftist terrorist group, announced that the explosions were a mere foretaste of what President Ronald Reagan can expect when he arrives in West Germany this week. Said the letter: "This...