Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detroit's strategic alliances with foreign carmakers have multiplied during the past decade because of intensifying global competition. The major U.S. automakers have jointly produced autos with Japanese, British, French and German companies in order to share new technology and enter lucrative foreign markets. But until recently, notes Fiat Chairman Gianni Agnelli, "Italy is the only car-producing country in Europe where Detroit has seldom been...
Successful commando assaults require very careful planning and expertly trained troops. An Israeli group in 1976 rescued 105 hostages from an Air France flight at Entebbe, Uganda. Four died -- three hostages and one commando. In 1977 West German forces staged the most successful raid, rescuing 86 passengers and crew from a Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia. No commandos or hostages were killed...
...rules may help deter some of the 30,000 so-called economic refugees who are expected to step into the transit lounges at West German airports this year and request asylum. But the measures will not directly block those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...
...they saddled him with a left-leaning party platform that called for, among other things, the total phase-out of nuclear energy, the withdrawal of NATO missiles from West Germany, the formation of "partnerships for peace" with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, and the reorganization of the West German army in order to "render it incapable of offensive action...
...West Germany of NATO's U.S.-built Pershing and cruise missiles as well as a pullout from Eastern Europe of Moscow's tactical missiles and a "drastic reduction" in Soviet SS-20 medium-range rockets. He promised, if elected, to cut the defense budget and cancel plans for West German participation in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. He also vowed to "stop nuclear energy production in stages." Turning to economic and social issues, Rau condemned the ruling conservative coalition of Chancellor Helmut Kohl for creating a "new poor" class and promised to fight unemployment, currently...