Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Richard von Weizsacker, meetings with leaders of the Bundestag and five hours of talks with Kohl. Bonn quickly acceded to one Honecker request: coffee and cake at the Essen home of Berthold Beitz, chairman of the Krupp steel empire, with whom he has developed a business and hunting friendship over the past seven years. That session will be followed by a reception for Honecker at the Villa Hugel, former home of the Krupp family. "Think of it," jokes Beitz, "a lifelong Communist in the home of the Krupp cannon kings...
Moscow's stubbornness was hard to fathom. Though Hess had been an early Nazi zealot, he had never wielded any real power, and he was already behind bars in England when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Ironically, his friendship with Hitler had developed in jail: the two men met in Landsberg Prison after the aborted Nazi putsch in 1923. There Hitler dictated Mein Kampf to Hess. Though Hitler later made Hess his deputy, he never took him seriously or delegated authority to him. At Nuremberg, the judges found Hess not guilty of war crimes or crimes against...
...constitution forbade himfrom holding office a third consecutive term, theattraction of running in an election was not loston Thornburgh as 1986 approached. First he lovedwith the idea of running against incumbent ArlenSpecter (R.-Pa.) for a U.S. Senate seat. Hisstatewide popularity would have made that electiona close one, but friendship with Specter anddesire to "get out of politics for a while" madeThornburgh change his mind...
Hart's fast-blooming friendship with Broadhurst was the stuff that every Washington power broker dreams of: a close association with the man who could be the next President. Although Broadhurst had limited political contacts outside Louisiana, he often traveled with Hart on forays through the South. On a Friday night in early March, Hart and Broadhurst were relaxing on a yacht in Miami harbor after a fund-raising dinner. As Rice tells it, she wandered aboard by chance and encountered Hart. She told the former Senator, "You probably don't remember, but I met you at Aspen." Hart admits...
Nakasone sought the same ceremonial high ground. Said he: "I am deeply concerned that serious frictions on trade and economic issues are on the rise between our two countries. We should not allow such a situation to undermine the friendship and mutual trust between...