Word: gertraud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second installment next week will trace the war up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.) Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski spoke to John Borrell about his family's flight to Lithuania three weeks after the invasion, while Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's famous propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in the Caribbean...
...installed this week. One of its first jobs: conducting negotiations next month with the Solidarity trade union, outlawed since 1981, and its leader Lech Walesa. In his first interview since agreeing to the talks, Walesa met with TIME Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth W. Banta and reporter Gertraud Lessing in a Gdansk church. Excerpts...
Reported by Gertraud Lessing/Bonn and Lawrence Malkin/Paris
Reported by Gertraud Lessing/Vienna, with other bureaus
Reported by Gertraud Lessing and William Rademaekers/Sarajevo