Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small Hamburg literary review reveals that several thousand copies of Bok's books were shipped to Iran in February. The books were published by a small press outside Paris that specializes in Palestinian revolutionary tracts and then shipped to Iran via international book merchants associated with the Harvard Club of Hamburg. Harvard News Office Director Peter Costa denies supressing information in the Gazette's feature on Bok's books, adding: "If we had found out about all this stuff we certainly would have asked John Shattuck whether or not we should publish...
...week's end Canadian and West German police had pieced together the probable course of events. Late last month at least 200 Sri Lankans arrived in the small port of Brake, about 60 miles west of Hamburg, from elsewhere in Germany. Each had paid nearly $2,500 in cash and valuables for passage to Canada, but only 155 were permitted to board a ship, where they were confined to the hold and fed boiled rice. They were reportedly warned that they or their relatives would be harmed if they told the truth about their trip...
Investigators suspect the Tamils were victims of an international plot to make a profit by transporting refugees seeking asylum in North America. Hamburg police last week arrested two Tamils and a Turk on charges that included violating passport laws and "trafficking in humans." Police identified the vessel that brought the Tamils to Canada as the Aurigae, a 425- ton West German ship that flies the Honduran flag. The telltale clue: the Aurigae's owners had recently bought three lifeboats belonging to the cruise ship Regina Maris. Though attempts had been made to sand off the name, the words Regina Maris...
...each time she drove an extra-base hit to left or snagged a fly ball in right field--her backup position on hurling off-days--the Hamburg, N.Y. native proved that her talents extended far beyond pitching...
Elsewhere, West German militants smashed windows and hurled rocks at police last week as 10,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in Hamburg. But perhaps the most stunning response to the Chernobyl accident came from France, which relies on the atom for 65% of its electric power. After first assuring its citizens that the nuclear cloud had passed them by, the French government admitted last week that radiation readings in some regions had been 400 times as high as normal. While that was alarming enough, red-faced French officials compounded the problem by insisting that their failure to notify the public...