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...West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's misgivings may be more forcefully expressed. West German officials appear to believe in contrast to the U.S. view, that their country's current anticipated growth rate is plenty. Two weeks ago, the West German Bundesbank declined to follow Washington as the U.S. cut the rate charged by the Federal Reserve to member banks from...
After he went to the West, Horowitz saw his father only once more, in Berlin in 1936. The visit proved to have fatal consequences. Returning home despite the pleas of his son, Samuel was arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi agent; his fluency in German and his trip to Berlin were used as evidence against him. He was exiled to Siberia, where he died...
...Played behind a gauzy scrim, it juxtaposes lyrical nudity and erotic mania, chivalrous honor and military obsession. Some of the images may be dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots on his hands, gracefully mimes both partners in an act of love; the soldiers who maintain a drumming kick step even...
Marie came in and announced that she had baked a German apple-pie cake this morning, and it tasted good enough to publish the recipe. She remembered that her first recipe, in 1964, was a guide to making your own bath salts. Since then, she fretted, she has used up all the recipes she can create as well as plagiarize. Nonetheless, she said, "I would hate to give this newspaper up. I had a birthday Saturday. I was 79. I've had two open-heart surgeries. I'm not about to stop doing anything I like...
...week, involved, among other things, some 40 advanced computer work stations manufactured by Tektronix, a small, specialized firm based in Beaverton, Ore., along with an unspecified number of computer disk drives produced by Control Data of Minneapolis. Tektronix salesmen apparently believed they had sold the equipment to a West German unit of Ford Motors through a Munich-based middleman named Wolfgang Lachmann. After the equipment was sent to Munich, it was allegedly shipped to a warehouse in Vienna; from there it disappeared...