Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alfred Summers, 30, who spent more than three days buried alive in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Joplin, Mo., last week was thankful that a trained German shepherd sniffed him out. Workers began digging where the dog indicated, and soon Summers' muffled voice was heard calling for help. He will eat Thanksgiving dinner in a hospital -but in satisfactory condition...
...students and researchers that Peking intends to send to the U.S. within the next twelve months. At the United Nations, China was allowed technical assistance it had requested, worth $10 million to $15 million, to train Chinese in languages and in agricultural and scientific technology. A consortium of West German companies is negotiating a $14 billion deal with Peking to build in Hopei province what would be the world's largest steelmaking complex. Britain's government agreed to negotiate the possible purchase by Peking of 30 Harrier vertical-takeoff jet bombers at $6.6 million each...
Declaring himself an "independent Marxist," Reed settled in a plush lakeside villa in East Berlin in 1973 and married an East German; they are now divorced. He has kept his American citizenship and periodically revisited the U.S. He came to Minnesota to promote El Cantor, a movie about a Chilean singer who Reed claims was tortured to death after the fall of Marxist President Salvador Allende...
...Johnnie, two hikers I had met by chance the day before, were leaving the ranger station as I set off. When I first caught sight of the water we ran into three other hikers who were having trouble finding a crossing--two American servicemen stationed in Germany and a German friend of theirs in the Sierras for a vacation...
...this year. Silberman has seized the issue from the troglodytes and returned it to the liberal metier, made it possible to think not only clearly but humanely' about crime. Buy it and read it, and tell your congressman to do the same. It's a lot cheaper than a German shepherd...