Word: haase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Walter A. Haas, 90, honorary chairman of the board of Levi Strauss & Co.; in San Francisco. A marketing wizard, Haas joined his father-in-law's floundering jeans company in 1919 and, barely altering a stitch in the product, turned it into an American institution.
The next morning, as the sun came out, so did looters. "We're going to deal with you in the most severe manner." warned Alabama Governor Fob James as he ordered out the National Guard and set a dusk-to-dawn curfew. In Prichard, a Mobile suburb, Mayor A.J...
The news of the Federal Republic's latest spy scandal was contained in the annual report of the Interior Ministry. It identified the hooker as Marta Haas, 60, a red-haired former gymnastics instructor who was arrested in May 1978 after a security search of her premises turned up...
The Interior Ministry report also disclosed that 17 people had been arrested on espionage charges last year. Most of these were suspected East German agents. Six, including Haas, were KGB operatives. A pair of Soviet agents based in Frankfurt were charged with stealing the plans for the firing mechanism of...
Their infatuation was short-lived. Maass details the lightning arrests-76,000 political undesirables jailed even before Hitler entered Vienna. He charts the merciless Aryanization of businesses and the swift disappearance of Jews from public life. He records the beginnings of a resistance that would grow through the war: 13...