Word: ja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the holiday season ends-many of them more than once. Tears and brandy flowed as the first visitors crossed the Wall. Grandparents sized up snowsuited two-year-olds they had never seen except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East German lad blew a year's savings on two geese, a sweater and a bottle of brandy to welcome...
...Gummilowe" (rubber lion). There is a widespread sense of Autoritatsmudigkeit-weariness of authority-in Germany today, and Erhard fits that mood. Erhard is fasci nated by ideas and by people. Where Adenauer could loftily dismiss a dissenting aide, Erhard cannot resist the temptation to listen to all the arguments. "Ja, tell me more," he will grunt, and almost never flatly contradicts anyone...
...office, Gimpex imported petroleum products, flour and other staples, using Cuban and Russian ships. Last July Gimpex actually managed some indirect aid from Cuba. The company sold $1,000,000 worth of railroad ties to Cuba, and the money-paid in advance-was lent by Gimpex to Ja-gan's government...
...riot was the latest flare-up in a seven-week general strike against Ja-gan's high-handed Communist-oriented regime. In April, Jagan introduced a bill in the legislature that would have empowered the government to "supervise" all union elections. Considering the bill a naked attempt to grab control of the country's labor movement, the powerful Trades Union Council called its 50,000 members out on strike. The bauxite mines and sugar mills closed down; so did the docks, railroads and airports. Hardly a store remained open. In the emergency, British technicians arrived to run essential...
Anti-Jagan dock workers recently stoned and burned her car; luckily for Janet Ja gan, she was not inside at the time. Even the regime's moderate opponents blame her for much of what Cheddi does. "It's all Janet's fault that Cheddi's the way he is," says one adversary...