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Preston Madden of Hamburg Place ushered prospective buyers past ferns and bunting into an air-conditioned, mirrored tack room. As butlers proffered champagne from silver trays, Madden screened footage of his past turf champions. Tom Gentry, the showman of the bluegrass, hawked his yearlings like a carnival huckster, giving away Tom Gentry T shirts, Tom Gentry hats and Tom Gentry Slush, a rum and lime concoction. Seth Hancock, breeder for Claiborne Farm, conducted business more sedately. His yearlings were paraded six at a time before sharp-eyed trainers searching for tiny flaws: a foot that was slightly crooked, a back...
...force file clerk, Hans-Jurgen Jenzowski, who was arrested while handing secret documents to an East German female spy. In May, two other West Germans in sensitive positions-Dagmar Kahlig-Scheffler, a secretary in the Bonn chancellery's foreign affairs section, and Rolf Grunert, chief of the Hamburg police criminal division-were arrested for giving classified documents to East German agents...
...real estate deals-the traditional haven for nervous money from abroad. Canadians. Iranians, Arabs (sometimes masquerading as Iranians), Germans and Japanese are leading bidders. Kenji Osawa. a Japanese investor, has bought six of the eight hotels managed by Sheraton in Hawaii; Lehndorff Management, the U.S. arm of a Hamburg investment management firm, estimates that foreigners will buy more than $2 billion worth of U.S. real estate this year, with West German investors among the leading purchasers...
...author, who has written books on the Luftwaffe and the firebombing of Dresden, reveals strange priorities of indignation. "The war in the air," he writes, "reached a climax in prenuclear barbarism as over 40,000 civilians were burned, blasted, or poisoned to death in Hamburg." Irving does not raise his voice in quite that way when confronting the systematic liquidation of 6 million European Jews...
Bonn, too, professed amazement and "regret"-even though officials could barely conceal their relief. Editorialized Hamburg's Bild Zeitung: "France lies weak, cowardly and humbled on its knees. The worst of it is, nobody knows whether any other European country, West Germany included, might not have done the same." Even pro-government French newspapers condemned Abu Daoud's release. "When acts so cruelly belie words, we are no longer in the political realm," said Le Figaro...