Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That message soon became a recurrent refrain. In 1982, when his latest amour, Magdalena Kopp, a German Red Army Faction member, was arrested in Paris in a car loaded with explosives, Carlos penned a letter to the French embassy at the Hague, stamped with his thumbprints. It warned, "I will take up the matter personally with the French government" unless Kopp and a fellow conspirator were released within 30 days. Two months later, the car bomb went off for which Carlos now stands trial. According to the French daily Le Monde, one of the two lawyers he retained last week...
...dollar jumped today, showing one of the largest one-day gains of the year against the German mark . . . Dow Jones industrial average up51.16 points, closing at 3881.05 . . . N.Y.S.E.'s composite index up 2.64, to 260.82 . . . NASDAQ stock up 8.14, to 762.94 . . . American Stock Exchange up 2.44, to 449.56 . . . Gold stayed at $383.30 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.47 percent, down from 7.53 late Thursday...
What's unusual about this tableau, however, is that the Wilhelmis are German. Home for this white couple and their American-born, black children is Flensburg, a city north of Hamburg and an ocean's divide from U.S. soil. Had the Wilhelmis been Americans from another U.S. state, they could not have removed the children from Pennsylvania without complying first with the terms of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. That means a review of their paperwork in both Pennsylvania and their home state, a process that typically takes up to two weeks. Instead the Wilhelmis had only...
...South, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Briefly a Communist Party member, he remained, by his own admission, "a supporter of the international movement and of the Soviet Union until there was nothing left to support." Particularly shocking to Genovese was the ignominious collapse of the East German Communist Party and the disclosures that pervasive corruption had infected its highest echelons. Today, he says, "in some respects I am as much a Marxist as I ever was," but adds, "I consider the communist movement dead and socialism finished...
...stop nuclear smuggling. According to a joint statement released in Germany, the two countries "emphasized the urgent necessity of putting a stop to the illegal trade in radioactive and nuclear material, regardless of its origin." The sketchy agreement is the fruit of a three-day visit to Moscow by German envoy Bernd Schmidbauer, whom an alarmed Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent over after Munich police confiscated 350 grams of plutonium traced to Russia...