Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Virginia. A Jewish refugee from Germany who arrived in Brooklyn in 1938, Mayer was an Army corporal in training in Arizona when one of Donovan's recruiters persuaded him to volunteer for something "more exciting." It was. In 1944 he parachuted into Nazi-held Austria, stole a German uniform and posed as a Wehrmacht officer while he monitored enemy troop movements. Laughs Mayer: "I was even promoted." Later, after getting a job in a Messerschmitt factory to spy on the development of German jet fighters, he was caught and tortured by the Gestapo. He managed to escape...
...Black propaganda," she replies sweetly. On her right at table 33, André Pacatte bursts into the Marseillaise as a U.S. Army band plays the French national anthem. Before and after the war, Pacatte ran the Berlitz school in Washington; during the war he used his language skills behind German lines in France and Italy. He recalls taking a 14-hour plane flight with Donovan and a group of shell-shocked American flyers returning home for psychiatric treatment...
...xenophobic isolationism. The country's increasing importance was underscored by a visit to Baghdad last month by Jordan's King Hussein for discussions on a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. Other recent callers have included French Premier Raymond Barre, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Their visits are solid evidence of the growing Western interest in Iraq and of Baghdad's desire to open new economic and diplomatic relations with the West. They also suggest that Saddam Hussein, 42, who replaced ailing Ahmed Hassan al Bakr, 65, as President last...
...Trilateral Commission's recent report on worker participation stated of German co-determination: "It must be admitted that the degree to which the ordinary employee is involved in this type of participation is very limited. Surveys show a low level of worker involvement and a limited satisfaction with the existing system...
...German experience--and others--prove that high-level union-management power-sharing cannot by itself change the character of daily working life. Opportunities for high-level worker influence superimposed on a traditional system which forces workers to shun participation even in the lowest level decisions about which they are most knowledgeable, will have little impact on workers' lives or attitudes...