Word: hamburger
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...about World War II, or the cold war either, one of the main events of the year is the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.* Anyone who missed the St. Matthew Passion in Bach's hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero...
...volumes of Adolf Hitler's diaries. It soon became clear that Stern itself had been caught in a $3.8 million swindle involving Documents Dealer Konrad Kujau, 46, and Stern's veteran investigative reporter Gerd ("the Detective") Heidemann, 53. The trial of the two men has been under way in Hamburg for six months. Even so, more questions than answers about the case remain as the proceedings move toward a close...
...Presse in Paris and claimed that the killing had been carried out by Action Directe, a shadowy French terrorist group that has been linked to West Germany's Red Army Faction. Only hours before Audran's killing, three 230-ft. electric-power pylons at a nuclear-power plant near Hamburg were damaged by explosives. Also last week a suspected Red Army Faction member, Johannes Thimme, 28, became the first casualty of the new terror campaign: he was killed when a bomb he was carrying in a baby carriage detonated prematurely in Stuttgart...
...Inside Hamburg's ultramodern Congress Center, delegates to the seventh conference of the Greens, West Germany's amalgam of antinuclear protesters, peace demonstrators and environmentalists, largely ignored one of the many slogans on the banners: WE GREENS MUST STICK TOGETHER. So far apart were the party's two factions-the fundamentalists, who remain faithful to the party's nonpolitical roots, and the realists, who want to have an impact on national policy-that the conference nearly split the party. At issue: whether to forge a coalition with the left-leaning Social Democratic Party...
...embarrassment occurred two days before the planned visit when 192 tourists left the Polish cruise liner Stefan Batory in Hamburg; many of them immediately began the quest for asylum. Their example was quickly followed. At week's end West German authorities reported that an additional 126 Poles had jumped ship from the ferry Rogalin when it docked in Travemünde, a town near the East German border...