Word: hamburger
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...history of political activity or affiliation with any organization who randomly stab or ax Israelis on the streets, and some of the German rightists who assault and kill Turks and other foreigners. Their depredations are "unorganized, unstructured, spontaneous acts with a political motivation," says Ernst Uhrlau, director of the Hamburg branch of an agency equivalent to the FBI. Police can never predict where or whom they will strike because, says Uhrlau, the offenders themselves "don't know in the morning what they will be doing that night...
...truth is that "proliferation cannot be stopped," says Gotz Neuneck, a physicist at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg. "If a country wants to develop these weapons, it can do it." Even slowing the spread is difficult. The nuclear nonproliferation treaty bars development by or transfer of the weapons to non-nuclear states. It has done some good, but it has not prevented additional states from acquiring the bomb. Several, including India, Pakistan and Israel, simply refused to sign. Iraq, on the other hand, signed the treaty but cheated. Iran and North Korea signed and have...
WHEN A BURLY FAN LUNGED OUT OF THE STANDS and stabbed top-ranked tennis pro Monica Seles in the upper back during a Hamburg tournament Friday, the first thought was of Balkan politics. Seles was born in Serbia, and there have been threats against her in the past. But the issue turned out to be top-level tennis, not war. "He did not want to kill Monica Seles," said a police spokesman. "He only wanted to injure her so Steffi Graf could become No. 1 again." The assailant, a 38-year-old German lathe operator, nearly succeeded...
...dared tell the British to drive on the right. Nor have the Twelve been able to agree on uniform electric plugs or phone jacks. In theory, professional barriers have dropped, so a Greek dentist can practice in Aberdeen, Scotland and an Italian lawyer can hang up his shingle in Hamburg, Germany. In actuality, the rules governing professional practice in each country remain decisive. On Jan. 1, internal passport controls were to vanish, but Britain, Ireland and Denmark balked. In the other nine countries, airport controls for internal E.C. passengers will disappear next year, after arrival gates have been reconfigured...
...year-old grandmother, her niece and her granddaughter -- and the torrent of denunciations that followed the deaths did just that, shocking German officialdom into wakefulness. Demonstrations that began the day after the Nov. 23 attack in the northern city of Molln persisted through a funeral gathering in Hamburg that attracted 10,000, and then into last weekend, when a crowd many times as large gathered in Munich. Images of marchers carrying banners asking such questions as HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO FALL TO TERROR SO THAT BONN WILL BE ALERT? flashed across the nation's television screens. Pointed criticism...