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...German and an avid supporter of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, I was more than pleased (even a little proud) to see this great man on the cover of Time [June 6]. Schröder has been a stellar head of government from the day he took office. Always aware of Germany's past and its responsibility to the future, yet never losing sight of the social and economic challenges his country faces, Schröder has followed in the footsteps of the greatest statesman Germany ever had, Willy Brandt. Underestimated at home as well as abroad, Schr...
...last week in Washington and other Western capitals. The 56-page booklet charged the U.S. with trying to "blackmail" and "fleece" its NATO allies with a costly weapons system that would only enhance the risks of nuclear war. More than 70,000 copies have been printed in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Japanese...
...concessions was adopted, and South African officials began passing the word of an upcoming major announcement. McFarlane and Crocker were briefed by South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha at a five-hour meeting in Vienna on Aug. 10; the Minister gave the same message to British and West German representatives. A few U.S. news organizations, including TIME, were given background briefings on the general nature and importance of the upcoming Durban address. Officials in Pretoria emphasized the likelihood that the government would have to pay a political price among its more conservative supporters for the impending announcement...
...first police theorized that Jeff could have been Pimental's killer. But last week the Frankfurt office of the Reuters news agency received a copy of a letter from the Red Army Faction, a West German terrorist group, and the French extremist organization Direct Action claiming responsibility for the air-base bombing. More startling, the envelope contained Pimental's green military identification card. The West German authorities now think they may have an explanation for how the terrorists managed to drive their bomb-laden car past the guards at the air base: they might simply have flashed Pimental...
...only weapon. Earlier this year, the German electronics manufacturer Siemens was officially told it couldn't acquire a majority stake in a Russian company that manufactures some defense-related equipment. Siemens had offered $200 million to $300 million for a 73% stake in the firm, Power Machines, but the deal was blocked by Russia's antitrust authority, reportedly for national-security reasons. The firm's owners said this month that they are negotiating to sell a majority stake to the Russian government instead. "Success automatically makes you a target," says Mikhail Kozhokin, vice president of KROS, a major Russian consulting...