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Nonetheless, American banks are not Poland's leading creditors. That dubious distinction goes to West German financial institutions, which are owed at least $2.7 billion. The largest single lender is the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft, with a total of about $310 million in Polish credits outstanding, followed by...
DEATH REVEALED. Hans Krebs, 81, 1953 Nobel co-prizewinning biochemist who discovered the ways in which food is turned into energy; on Nov. 22; in Oxford, England. Born in Germany, Krebs was a researcher in Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea...
Ratzinger did not always see things that way. During the Second Vatican Council he was the most eloquent member of a troika of progessive German theological experts (with Karl Rahner and Hans Küng). In that era the reform-minded priest called the office he will now head "detrimental...
He is a Marxist composer in striped pants and gold cuff links who talks about revolution while sipping Calvados and puffing unfiltered Gitanes in an elegant hotel restaurant. "Because you're a socialist, people expect you to dress in flour bags and eat garbage," says Germany's Hans...
The paradox of Hans Werner Henze extends from his life to his art. A member of the progressive Darmstadt circle of composers after World War II, Henze broke decisively with the avant-garde in the mid-'50s and today sneers at the "utter boredom" of doctrinaire serialism. For all...