Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total soccer experience," senior captain Pepper Brill calls the trip, which had the Crimson scrimmaging against some of Germany's fourth and fifth division professional teams, as well as watching some of the aforementioned U.S. and German internationals train and play...
...think that is going to be a shame," says Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan about the two different sites. "I would prefer it all to be in one space, but that would require a mammoth building...
...North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Germany's Defense Minister made his country's position clear today, possibly setting up a rift with the Clinton Administration's Partnership for Peace Program. "If Russia were to become a member of NATO, that would blow NATO apart," Volker Ruehe told a conference of German and American business leaders. Why the snub? Ruehe claimed it would be too difficult to integrate the Russians into the Western alliance, in part because they refuse to learn English, the accepted "common" language of NATO. His U.S. counterpart, Defense Secretary William Perry, hedged, saying Russia could get in line...
...real pomp was reserved for the departure of the U.S., British and French Allied troops today, after a half-century of military presence. "We came to Berlin as occupying forces, we stayed as protecting forces, and we leave as friends," said British Prime Minister John Major, flanked by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Francois Mitterrand of France and Secretary of State Warren Christopher. But crowds were thinner than expected: with so many ceremonies, toasts, speeches and parades to honor Allied and Russian troops in the past two weeks, Berliners are complaining of "nostalgia fatigue...
...royal farce continues. Last week the Queen of England's corgis, gathered at London's Heathrow Airport to welcome her home after a glum royal tour of Canada, passed the time by terrorizing a German shepherd employed by the police. The cop dog was rescued. Meanwhile, the ravening tabloids were already squaring off for the November confrontation between two royal tell-all books: Jonathan Dimbleby's on Prince Charles, based on his recent TV program; and the sequel by Andrew Morton to his 1992 super-best seller on the Princess of Wales, called Diana: Her New Life...