Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INCLINE OUR HEARTS by A.N. Wilson (Viking; $17.95). A London child is orphaned by German bombs during World War II and sent to live with relatives in the English countryside. What follows is a seriocomic autobiographical novel about coming of age in an age deucedly difficult to understand...
...only in the essentials, not in individual anecdotes." In the subversive sitcom What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1985), "I wanted to talk about my family, and about the horrendous family life of the barrios." Mom (Maura) sniffs glue, pops pills and burns the chicken. Dad sings German songs -- reason enough for her to kill the dull brute with a ham bone. By this time the viewer may feel like put-upon Mom or bashed-in Dad, so assiduously has Almodovar cataloged his atrocities. But the filmmaker had more cunning indiscretions in store...
...assigned, at 21, to take charge of logistics at a base in West Germany, with 60 German civilians working under him. He rose to the rank of captain, then went to Korea as commandant of a school, where he trained Korean soldiers to work with the U.S. Army. "I learned to be comfortable taking command," he says. Indeed, those who have been with him in political or lobbying efforts say he is the type people turn to when a decision needs to be made...
Other West German press reports led to Joseph Gedopt, 44, managing director of an Antwerp shipping company named Cross Link Group. Last week, acting on information supplied by West German customs officials, Belgian authorities arrested Gedopt for falsifying bills of lading on a shipment of Imhausen equipment that left Germany addressed to Pen-Tsao in Hong Kong but was later diverted to Libya through Antwerp. Gedopt reportedly admitted making many such diversions, for Imhausen and other companies, but denied knowing that any shipments he handled had been destined for a chemical-weapons facility...
Even Libya, while continuing to claim that the huge desert plant was built strictly as a pharmaceutical facility, had a small role in documenting West Germany's participation in the project. The Libyan Ambassador to the United Nations, Ali Treiki, confirmed that West German firms "did help us, not only in this plant, in other plants also...